bead
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“I don’t think anybody had a firm bead on what the result was going to be,” Lance Dutson, a Maine Republican strategist who worked on Collins’ 2008, 2014, and 2020 campaigns, told me.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026
He managed to get back two coral bead crowns and a tunic but it was only in 2021 that any significant repatriation of artefacts by Western universities and museums began.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026
While investors are trying to get a bead on the Fed, earnings season is rolling on.
From Barron's ● Feb. 3, 2026
Difficult to draw a bead on the Buccaneers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2024
Admiring her idea, gloating, planning, Omakayas turned the leather sewing kit and bead packet over and over in her hands.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
In the dining room, vintage Doyle Lane ceramic beads dangle from a Mission-style wooden clock while designer handbags are draped over chairs and hat racks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
Nearby, a handmade chandelier by artist Helen Stickler, decorated with vintage Swarovski crystals and beads, adds to what Weger describes as her “Candyland vibe.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
Elsewhere, sizable sculptures of unknown creatures made from glass beads are effortfully wacky.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
The acid, base, and protein beads can all be reused.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 11, 2026
Then he does something that surprises me almost as much as the beads.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
Velvet-coated sculptures of cactuses and otherworldly beaded plants provide some of the much needed levity that the show so hopes to achieve.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
The doorbell went again and a walking sculpture dressed in an Anne Boleyn-style quilted dress with beaded face mask appeared.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Partygoers seemed more enthused about the vendor selling beaded plushie necklaces than about heading to the dance floor.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026
"That bag! That bag!" one shopper shouts while racing through the warehouse, filled with everything from colourful toys -- including popular Gundam action figures -- to ceramic bowls, beaded necklaces and even used umbrellas.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
“Save them for the band’s fundraising effort and find that young one selling those beaded key rings. We’ll call it what it is tonight: redistributing the wealth.”
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
KSENIASCHNAIDER's show was in complete contrast to Annie's highly crafted runway looks, which were a flurry of beading, embellishment and feathers.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026
Cell biologist John Heuser from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis also thinks beading is an artifact of the preparation process.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 2, 2024
Entering the pavilion, the beaded bodices of sculptures in human form are emblazoned with dates of U.S. legislation that promised equity, the beading cascading into colorful fringe.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 18, 2024
An exhibition, “Like a Memory of Night,” showed work by Sika Amakye, a young Ghanaian artist who employs traditional beading traditions passed down matrilineally.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2024
Sweat breaks out on the palms of my hands, beading up through the ointment, and I do my best to pat them dry on my shirt.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
