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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

"We Turkmen are known for our carpets and horses," he told AFP at his stud farm not far from the capital.

From Barron's Jun. 5, 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

Massive yuccas and barrel cacti stud its steep slopes.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 30, 2026

“That was the bravest thing I’ve ever seen,” says Nate Christensen, seventeen, a senior, wearing black shorts and a red T-shirt and a diamond stud in his ear.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

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

Sunburned in my memory was the wall of belts, cuffs and chokers dripping gloriously in silver studs.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 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

There were a few moments of concern when Messi's studs caught the top of Aissa Mandi's heel but, no action was taken, and the Argentine took full advantage.

From BBC Jun. 17, 2026

Diana bit her lip as she reached for the gold studs Katherine gave her for her sixteenth birthday, then added the gold-cross necklace that had technically been from her father.

From "Time Bomb" by Joelle Charbonneau

A charcoal ceramic incense burner molded to look like a studded belt.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

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

Their lead single “Fabienk” is studded with hair-trigger riffs — if you can even call them that — that mix the playful nursery rhyme melodies of Battles with the no-wave drone of Sonic Youth.

From Salon Jun. 5, 2026

There is also an Ireland-registered AB charitable foundation with an advisory board studded with prominent politicians from Europe, Latin America and Africa.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 28, 2026

He’s carrying a rake, wears a work belt that looks like armor, it’s got so many carabiners and tools hanging off it, and shoulders a backpack full of stuff studded with even more carabiners.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

A recent study in the journal Science Immunology says this ability to escape antibodies is due to more than 30 changes in the spike protein studding the surface of the virus.

From Washington Times Nov. 25, 2022

Williams gave Pruitt information about her family and her relationship to tennis history that he has embedded, such as studding the swirling beads with the birthstones of her siblings.

From New York Times Nov. 1, 2022

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

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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