- present participle of bud.
budding
Example Sentences
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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
The team hopes to win a Super Bowl by betting that its budding star can outscore just about anyone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
In Lee Chang-dong’s ‘Possible Love,’ a budding connection stumbles over the class divide.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
Just as an embryo retraces much of the human evolutionary past, so budding artists reinvent the first stages of art.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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