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Recent Examples of bead
Noun
Concerts are held on select nights during that period, following the park’s nightly Mardi Gras Parade, which will feature six new floats this year as well as the traditional bead tossing.—Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 7 Jan. 2025 Maybe just a treasury friendship bracelet, with gold beads.—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
Verb
The surface tension of elemental mercury is so high that the liquid beads up rather than puddling and doesn’t cling to much of anything, ceaselessly vacuuming into itself.—Sallie Tisdale, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024 The resin beads exchange their sodium ions for the calcium and magnesium ions in the water, making the water soft.6
This process of softening water can use a lot of water.—Sherri Gordon, Health, 19 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for bead
Depp pushes over a cabinet with dishes, rips open her dress and makes a most unholy noise as her eyeballs go up in their sockets, tongue juts out and globs of drool pour from her mouth.
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Brian Truitt,
USA TODAY,
24 Dec. 2024
At the end of the first song, a small red glob rained down from above.
The technique has produced delicious, consistent results from campsites in Big Sur, California, and Baja, Mexico—and in everything from frying oil to pellet grills to standard home ovens.
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Wes Siler,
Outside Online,
25 Nov. 2024
Extremely high temperatures inside the reactor in those first few days are believed to have melted parts of the zirconium alloy fuel rods and some of the uranium pellets themselves.
Mister Rogers, with his cardigan drip, that sweater-wearing prowess, was a fiery change-maker, as noted in Chantel Tattoli’s article about his college days in The Paris Review.
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Ken Makin,
The Christian Science Monitor,
15 Jan. 2025
Create a Cleaning Caddy Here’s how to store cleaning supplies without worrying about spills or drips ruining a nice basket: Nestle a plastic caddy with a handle inside the basket.
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Kelly Roberson,
Better Homes & Gardens,
13 Jan. 2025
Potatoes Protein content: around four grams per medium-size potato (baked)
While the potato is often lumped in with starchy foods like rice, bread, pasta, and cereal, it’s—surprise!—actually classified as a vegetable.
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Caroline Tien,
SELF,
8 Jan. 2025
He was lumped in with Cedric Pare, a middle-six Toronto Marlies forward, and Dakota Mermis, who has yet to play for the Leafs.
His drop has turned into a days-long news story, in part because the Ravens now have three tight ends each with one year left on their contracts: Jackson’s security blanket, Andrews; Isaiah Likely, a quickly ascending pass catcher; and perhaps the best blocking tight end of the trio, Charlie Kolar.
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Sam Cohn,
Sun Sentinel,
24 Jan. 2025
If there’s any chance someone with a tree nut allergy will eat these chocolate drops, return them for a refund.
The night culminated with a countdown as a glowing geodesic sphere 12 feet in diameter and weighing almost six tons descended from its lofty perch atop One Times Square.
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CBS News,
CBS News,
1 Jan. 2023
And young people are innovating outside that sphere as well, including Southern-gothic singer-songwriter Ethel Cain and art-rockers Geese.
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