bud
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With each instructive and poetic chapter, she shows us how time used to be measured by birdsong and flower bud, the color of twilight and the wide wheel of stars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 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
When the bloom begins, it starts as a massive green bud and grows fast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2025
From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a lull-sized adult.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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
I’d say it depends on the dish — and leave the rest to your personal taste buds.
From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2026
Liv and Alina Valdez, dressed up as fan favourite buds Steve Harrington and Dustin Henderson, and said they couldn't have been more pleased with how it all ended.
From BBC ● Jan. 1, 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
He visited the birch, sat in his favorite roost, and admired the birch’s buds as one admires a friend’s babies.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
“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
Evans said WA 64 was first budded in 2001 after being crossbred in 1998.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 25, 2023
Crocuses have budded in sunnier parts of the yard.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2023
Species responded to warmer temperatures in different ways - most kept their leaf colour longer into Autumn but some budded early.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2023
Everything was richly green: the color of newly budded leaves, of luminescent moss, of every possible shade of pine needle.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
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
“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
He is framing the company as not just a rocket maker but also a budding AI powerhouse to rival OpenAI and Anthropic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
Those budding relationships with the Stormont parties were quickly tested as old arguments about funding for the executive resurfaced.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
But he’d started playing with Songololo again, and I didn’t know how to break up their budding friendship.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
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