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stud

[stuhd] / stʌd /
NOUN
studding
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NOUN
post
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His video, which rapidly surged to more than 750,000 views, shows his vehicle approaching an unfinished wooden guard hut with stud walls still visible on the outside.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 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 ● Apr. 27, 2026

Ferdinand was sent to stud in 1989 and sold to a breeding farm in Japan in 1994.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2026

The Suffolk Punch Trust has had a stud at Hollesley in the county, since 1759.

From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026

One ear is pierced all the way to the top, and she has a tiny blue nose stud she got last summer.

From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli

And we knew we would need to tackle a few things: stripping garish wallpaper, repainting, taking the one full bath down to the studs.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 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 ● Aug. 23, 2026

The sight of the centre-backs standing tall, studs on the ball, waiting for the opposition forwards to become impatient before closing them down felt unnatural but it was purposeful.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

In a group play match against Algeria, Lionel Messi, the Argentine superstar, seemed to rake his studs along Aïssa Mandi’s right calf and ankle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

The other brought him a triangular shield almost four feet tall, heavy oak dotted with iron studs.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

Many visit the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, which contains Irving’s grave, Mr. Ocker notes, as well as the remains of Carnegies, Rockefellers and Astors, among “lush hills studded with old stones, mausoleums, and statues.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

The small restaurant serves Somali food, and I get the same thing every time I visit: goat mendi, with fall-apart bone-in goat served over deeply seasoned rice studded with crispy bits of potato and raisins.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

But the idea that future generations will inherit my studded Prada Buffalo Easy bag to remember me by makes me laugh.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

Maybe the only way to justify a magnetic attraction to wanting my bags, shoes and belts to be studded, spiky, pierced and heavy is by connecting the dots.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

Gregor unrolled it and found a stunningly beautiful sword, studded with jewels.

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins

And at a shady tent, a group of teenagers blared pop songs, looped together friendship bracelets and did one another’s makeup, blending rainbow eye shadow and studding sequins along their foreheads.

From New York Times ● Jun. 24, 2023

A recent study in the journal Science Immunology says this ability to escape antibodies is due to more than 30 changes in the spike protein studding the surface of the virus.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 25, 2022

Jet-setters aspiring to Plein’s rock ‘n’ roll aesthetic can settle into a curved velvet sofa with gold studding.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 13, 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 ● May 18, 2022

The thatch had been ripped from some, where others stood there was now only a heap of mud with their owners’ possessions studding them in a kind of pitiless decoration.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya


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