as in kid
a young person who is between infancy and adulthood
that sitcom star is still a bud, so all he needs right now are looks and personality
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Recent Examples of bud
Allison Carnegie, Foreign Affairs, 14 May 2025
But that doesn’t change the reality of an offseason decision tree that has a lot more dead branches than promising buds.
—John Hollinger, New York Times, 13 May 2025
Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Apr. 2025
Amidst them is James Ogden, whose lifelong fascination with the draft has led him to evaluate budding young prospects and write reports from his corner of the United Kingdom for almost two decades.
—Billie Melissa, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
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Noun
The situation could start to resemble the lead-up to World War II, which partially resulted from the collapse of the League of Nations and the failure of European powers to nip German expansionism in the bud.
—Allison Carnegie, Foreign Affairs, 14 May 2025
But that doesn’t change the reality of an offseason decision tree that has a lot more dead branches than promising buds.
—John Hollinger, New York Times, 13 May 2025
Verb
Harden and Braun were in each other's face before Jokic budded in to defuse the situation.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Apr. 2025
Amidst them is James Ogden, whose lifelong fascination with the draft has led him to evaluate budding young prospects and write reports from his corner of the United Kingdom for almost two decades.
—Billie Melissa, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bud
Noun
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Director Robert Zemeckis finds mixed results marrying broad comedy and pop-culture references with the title wooden boy's adventurous quest to become a real kid.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
26 May 2025
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The American customers can peruse Saint James' iconic wardrobe essentials for the whole family with selections men, women, kids, even dogs plus unisex styles.—
Roxanne Robinson,
Forbes.com,
25 May 2025
Verb
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The best way to encourage months of flowering on French (bigleaf) and oakleaf hydrangeas is by pruning as little as possible.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
24 May 2025
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Another bonus of harvesting smaller fruit is that your plant will keep flowering and fruiting throughout the summer.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
24 May 2025
Noun
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While recording a commercial focused on hopes for one’s children, the script struck a personal chord.—
William Jones,
USA Today,
17 May 2025
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Volunteers of all ages will come together to fill backpacks with school supplies for Palm Beach County children at Title 1 schools.—
Jessica Tzikas,
Sun Sentinel,
16 May 2025
Verb
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Unlike earlier digital platforms, which blossomed under minimal government intervention, most of today’s frontier technologies—such as aerospace, AI, biotech, energy, and quantum computing—actively require implicit or explicit state backing to scale up.—
Ian Bremmer,
Foreign Affairs,
13 May 2025
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Trading the pick would mean giving up the opportunity to draft Cooper Flagg, the consensus top prospect and a player many pundits believe will blossom into a superstar.—
Lawrence Dow,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
13 May 2025
Noun
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Creator 3-in-1 Wild Animals Panda Family Kids and adults will love building and rebuilding this three-in-one set, which can be assembled into a panda bear eating bamboo with its cub, an orca swimming with its calf, and a penguin with its chick.—
Mia Huelsbeck,
People.com,
24 May 2025
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The fox cub, identified as a Sechuran desert fox, appeared inside a house in Piura, Peru’s National Forest and Wildlife Service said in a May 6 news release.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
23 May 2025
Verb
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The third boy, Ian Berg, remained pinned in the driver’s seat, a bruise blooming on the right side of his forehead.—
Sarah Zhang,
The Atlantic,
16 May 2025
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At the attached teahouse, enjoy the infinitely blooming flowers projected into your cup. Art and Museums in New York City A guide to the shows, exhibitions and artists shaping the city’s cultural landscape.—
Lisa Lucas,
New York Times,
16 May 2025
Verb
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This is because of the increasing demands for networking and switches to connect exponentially larger clusters, from spine to leaf in the front end and back end, rack to rack and accelerator to accelerator.—
Beth Kindig,
Forbes,
19 Dec. 2024
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Such a cacophony means that the reader keeps having to leaf back to make sense of the storyline.—
Ruth Margalit,
The New York Review of Books,
30 Mar. 2023
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“Bud.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bud. Accessed 30 May. 2025.
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