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bud

[buhd] / bʌd /




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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

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

From Slate • Dec. 19, 2025

"If we can nip it in the bud from even one person, then hopefully we could stop them potentially doing more harm to other people."

From BBC • Dec. 4, 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

And she’d say, every single time, “And do you know what a bud is?”

From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis




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