budding

At Wooster, James ran the campus pub and joined a club for budding investors.

Balletto’s grapes typically start budding in late February or early March.

A smallish example is water companies in the United Kingdom, where years of strong performance masked budding problems with pollution and customer dissatisfaction.

Six years ago, before he was seen as a budding star at USC, Jahkeem Stewart stood at the base of that levee in Algiers on a muggy day, drenched in sweat.

He was promoting his vision of Mexico’s still budding national identity.