bud

From there it opens up, like a flower bud warming to summer, with acoustic guitar strumming, a gentle rhythm section and a gospel choir echoing with otherworldly lightness.

From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026

Kirsten added "it needs to be nipped in the bud".

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

Had a military coup been nipped in the bud?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 2026

This is why a lot of Jews want to nip that rhetoric in the bud.

From Slate ● Dec. 19, 2025

"What can we do for you, bud?" he said.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

He notes that the system is good at picking out very tiny flower buds, which are hard to see at a glance with the naked eye.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

When they hatch, the leaves they depend on are still sealed inside buds, leaving them with nothing to eat.

From Science Daily ● May 5, 2026

Now a must-have iPhone accessory, the development of the first generation was infamous inside Apple for infighting among Ternus’s peers as they argued over how to keep the wireless ear buds connected via Bluetooth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026

While most plants only had one flower with many buds yet to open up, some were in full bloom with the sweet fragrant scent only the lily can provide.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2025

Then I went into the rose-garden and cut some young buds.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

Researchers also observed the archaeon producing chains of budded vesicles along with elaborate tube-like structures.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026

“If your hemagglutinin is too sticky and your neuraminidase is too poor, you get stuck to the cell that you’ve just budded from,” Peacock says.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 5, 2024

There are also “nine or so grafts and budded plants” Chris Trimmer who runs the site explains.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2024

This year, skip budded or blooming plants; give the gardener on your list a chubby bulb, and let them cultivate those impressive stalks crowned with showy trumpet blossoms.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 25, 2023

“This much have I done,” Taran repeated to himself, and new strength budded in his heart.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

Going on hiatus to serve in the military is often a threat for budding careers in South Korea's fast-moving entertainment industry.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Now, I could see, my language skills might be an asset in my budding journalism career.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

The Clippers were so desperate for a star to pick them, they didn’t pick up on the fact that they already had a budding superstar in their midst.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

The story brims with humor, much of it involving Ms. Korsgaard’s attempt to square her work as a budding naturalist with her life as a spouse and parent of three young sons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Under the microscopes, their long tails furiously lashing, spermatozoa were burrowing head first into eggs; and, fertilized, the eggs were expanding, dividing, or if bokanovskified, budding and breaking up into whole populations of separate embryos.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley