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
Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2025
The app provides a simple interface with a quick look at the battery levels of the buds and case, and access to numerous settings.
—PC Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
Meg Zukin, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2025
However, Victoria and David completely approve of Kim and Romeo’s budding relationship.
—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 4 Apr. 2025
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Noun
When the buds color up or the foliage begins to unfurl, arrange the branches in a vase and display them in a cool room in bright light — but out of direct sunlight.
—Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2025
The app provides a simple interface with a quick look at the battery levels of the buds and case, and access to numerous settings.
—PC Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
Verb
Tash reimagines 1969 Woodstock for the YA crowd, focusing on the budding romance between teens Michael and Cora against the backdrop of Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and the Grateful Dead.
—Meg Zukin, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2025
However, Victoria and David completely approve of Kim and Romeo’s budding relationship.
—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 4 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bud
Noun
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The massacre, which also wounded 21 people, became a blueprint for dozens of copycats and shattered the notion that kids were safe in school.—
Terry Collins,
USA Today,
20 Apr. 2025
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And as kids grow, the questions can get more complex.—
Maya Payne Smart, Contributor,
CNBC,
19 Apr. 2025
Verb
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This mystery concerns the connection between winter cold and spring flowering.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
12 Apr. 2025
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Some species are more drawn to flower nectar than others.—
Miri Talabac,
Baltimore Sun,
10 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Most of the justices sounded sympathetic to a group of Maryland parents who want their elementary school children excused from class when the books are being read.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2025
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The surface contained scores of portraits made by children with baker’s clay, then turned into 42 bronze panels.—
Robert Taylor,
Mercury News,
22 Apr. 2025
Verb
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What began as a single bucket of blooms gifted by her grandmother has blossomed into a sprawling garden with over 400 rosebushes.—
Symiah Dorsey,
Southern Living,
8 Apr. 2025
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The Southeastern Conference had blossomed into perhaps the nation’s best basketball league, and Texas A&M’s resources are seemingly unlimited.—
Taylor Lyons,
Baltimore Sun,
2 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks did not immediately respond to USA TODAY's question Tuesday about whether the mama bear may have been defending her cub.—
Fernando Cervantes Jr.,
USA Today,
15 Apr. 2025
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In most attacks, bears are trying to defend their food, cubs or space.—
Helena Wegner,
Sacbee.com,
15 Apr. 2025
Verb
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But remember, don't spray when the trees are blooming because neem oil is toxic to bees.—
Steve Bender,
Southern Living,
12 Apr. 2025
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Throughout the season, viewers witnessed the pair’s friendship evolve into a blooming relationship.—
Taylor Crumpton,
Essence,
11 Apr. 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 26 Apr. 2025.
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