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
Caley Sturgill, Southern Living, 26 May 2025
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This budget projector and STEM toy projects accurate images of the cosmos, ideal for for budding astronomers who want a glimpse of the night sky at home.
—Chris McMullen, Space.com, 24 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
As soon as the flowers start blooming and the leaves start budding, we’re drawn outside to our rocking chairs to enjoy the local wildlife.
—Caley Sturgill, Southern Living, 26 May 2025
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This budget projector and STEM toy projects accurate images of the cosmos, ideal for for budding astronomers who want a glimpse of the night sky at home.
—Chris McMullen, Space.com, 24 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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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
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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
Noun
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Alex Fine, her husband and father of her children, was present during her testimony.—
Mya Abraham,
VIBE.com,
28 May 2025
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Another victim was 27-year-old Mary Reiner, who had just returned home after giving birth to her first child.—
Monica Mercuri,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
Verb
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Flanigan had shared several photos on social media of her children and a blossoming baby bump in 2021.—
Latoya Gayle,
People.com,
27 May 2025
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Meanwhile, romance with someone different or from another culture might blossom.—
Georgia Nicols,
Denver Post,
23 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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Some flowers bloom at the beginning of spring, while others begin to flower at the end of the summer or early fall and can bloom for a couple of days or weeks.—
Lauren David,
Southern Living,
1 June 2025
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Visit in spring to avoid the worst of the crowds, and see the landscape awash in seasonal wildflower blooms.—
Zoe Baillargeon,
Travel + Leisure,
31 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 6 Jun. 2025.
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