stud
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“Aaron is a stud, and he’s been at the forefront of setting the foundation of everything that we’re about here,” said McVay, who is in his 10th season as Rams coach.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 21, 2026
"We Turkmen are known for our carpets and horses," he told AFP at his stud farm not far from the capital.
From Barron's β Jun. 5, 2026
And in February, as snow melted around the “No Industrial Solar” signs that stud the long country roads, a circuit court judge ruled that St. Clair County’s health regulation is “invalid, null, and void.”
From Salon β Apr. 27, 2026
"The footprints of craftworking buildings were found along with evidence for different stages of production, including the creation of vellum, pigments for the pages and glass stud mounts for the cover and bindings," she said.
From BBC β Mar. 25, 2026
She then asked Kentucky’s famed Claiborne Farm, which boarded her mares, to stand him at stud.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
At the time, Mourinho pleaded with the referee for a red card to be shown to the Argentina international for dangerous foul play, because replays showed Romero made contact with his studs on Bellingham's knee.
From BBC β Sep. 20, 2026
The internet as we knew it might have been torn down to the studs by Silicon Valley bigwigs looking to sell the wiring for scrap, but the bones are still good.
From Salon β Aug. 23, 2026
Crews are putting finishing touches on mall buildings after tearing them down to the studs, treating the wood and rebuilding the walls, Caruso said.
From Los Angeles Times β Jul. 8, 2026
On that night, in Kansas City, Messi lunged for a ball and raked his studs on the calf of an Algerian defender.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jul. 2, 2026
Her blonde hair is woven into a French braid and she’s shoving gold studs into her ears.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
The road to perfecting her self-taught craft was studded with trial, error and copious online video tips.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 2, 2026
It was dark and deeply moist, a little earthy without tasting particularly of vegetables, and studded throughout with hunks of chocolate.
From Salon β Aug. 31, 2026
Constantinople had a superb strategic position and massive ancient defenses: a huge moat, an outer wall, and an inner wall studded with towers.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 5, 2026
Under a chaotic canopy woven with vines and studded with fearsome spiked stems, the group crossed streams, waded through mud and picked off dozens of leeches.
From Barron's β Jun. 25, 2026
She then rapped three times on the thick black door, which was studded with iron nails and bore a knocker shaped like an eagle.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
Williams gave Pruitt information about her family and her relationship to tennis history that he has embedded, such as studding the swirling beads with the birthstones of her siblings.
From New York Times β Nov. 1, 2022
Scientists expect more genetic changes that affect parts of the spike protein studding the surface of the virus, letting it attach to human cells.
From Seattle Times β Sep. 6, 2022
But Ferreira found that people who carry a specific variant of the ACE2 gene have about 39 percent fewer receptors for the protein studding their cellular surfaces.
From Scientific American β May 18, 2022
This generated a startling result: The spike proteins studding SARS-CoV-2 bound more tightly to their human cell receptor, a protein called ACE2, than target receptors on any other species evaluated.
From Salon β Mar. 21, 2021
There were fully twenty-five seeds studding the top of it each as large as the end of his thumb.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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