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Hilton Worldwide Holdings appeared earlier this month to have nipped a similar public-relations crisis in the bud.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
A pilot scheme designed to identify and nip potential health problems in the bud has been launched by the Isle of Man's public health directorate.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2026
This is why a lot of Jews want to nip that rhetoric in the bud.
From Slate ● Dec. 19, 2025
But it compounds a sense that Arsenal are experiencing a "blip" and need to nip it in the bud before it becomes more than that.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025
That way I could be his bud if he needed one.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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
Some of the rose buds had also started to rot, but she's dried them out and made a resin artwork scattered with the salvageable petals.
From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2026
They can help your gut, your blood pressure, your cholesterol—and your taste buds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2026
I’d say it depends on the dish — and leave the rest to your personal taste buds.
From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2026
Granny first, though hardly able to walk; then Durgan; Kannan with his wife, bearing a few jasmine buds; and Kali, bringing with her a muslin cloth to cover the bier.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
“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
It had a Michigan secret receiver who budded to star.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 30, 2021
I wish she had spoke to me, and told me what it was that budded there in the clearing by the lake.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
The 19-year-old, sporting a budding beard, usually operates from home, filling lulls by watching the TV show Criminal Minds or honing his drone-flying skills on a simulator.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
Uber and Lyft drivers in California are a step closer to unionizing after state regulators confirmed the budding union had gained enough support to be certified.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
Cutler, 68, recalls taking a meeting with Kushner at his Cambridge, Mass., office when the younger man was still a student at Harvard with a budding interest in tech.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
“While we are encouraged by the company’s improved execution and budding operating leverage, we think the true value of the company is still very much in flux,” he said in his report.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
A breeze rustled the budding trees above us on the mountainside, but, like everybody else, my focus was entirely on the silent tipple and the frozen winch wheel on the man-hoist.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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