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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

The 4-year-old colt, who was injured at the start of the San Diego Handicap, which he rallied to win, will be put out to stud.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 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

"The footprints of craftworking buildings were found along with evidence for different stages of production, including the creation of vellum, pigments for the pages and glass stud mounts for the cover and bindings," she said.

From BBC Mar. 25, 2026

So first I put the back stud into the back of the collar-band of the shirt.

From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl

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

Players often have to ditch the molded cleats they typically use for cleats with longer, detachable studs when playing outside the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 2026

On that night, in Kansas City, Messi lunged for a ball and raked his studs on the calf of an Algerian defender.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

An assortment of pots and pans hang from hooks on the wooden studs next to ladles and strainers and big boxes of breakfast cereal, which must come from Costco.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

Under a chaotic canopy woven with vines and studded with fearsome spiked stems, the group crossed streams, waded through mud and picked off dozens of leeches.

From Barron's Jun. 25, 2026

The AI leaderboard has been studded with swift rerankings as the technology rapidly evolves.

From MarketWatch Apr. 26, 2026

Mapperton, near Beaminster, is an Italianate fantasy in a steep coombe studded with topiary and sky-reflecting pools.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 11, 2026

A barley risotto studded with dried autumn mushrooms follows, Finland’s breadbasket turned into comfort.

From Salon Mar. 8, 2026

She wore a long-sleeved leotard, with a big plume of peacock feathers fanning out from her butt area, studded with glittering blue and green sequins and trailing black-sequined feather boas from her wrists.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

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

Scientists expect more genetic changes that affect parts of the spike protein studding the surface of the virus, letting it attach to human cells.

From Seattle Times Sep. 6, 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

This fantasy's purpose wasn't to make these fetes more desirable by studding them with stars, but to accurately suss out the source of a performer's charisma.

From Salon Apr. 17, 2022

The base was X-shaped, walnut-sized brass balls studding the ring where the metallic legs crossed.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini




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