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Recent Examples of beads
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
29 June 2026
Combine gemstones, modern French tips, and your favorite team flag surrounded by beads for the win.
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Amanda Le,
InStyle,
29 June 2026
Doechii’s version included contrasting brown and gold reptilian-print material as well as beads, sequins and tassel adornment.
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Jaden Thompson,
Footwear News,
28 June 2026
Instead of beads and candy, the Alliance of Illinois Judges opted to distribute pocket-sized copies of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution from their trolley.
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Christiana Freitag,
Chicago Tribune,
28 June 2026
Visitors can salsa dance in Puerto Rico, milk a mechanical cow in Michigan, walk through an orange-scented citrus grove in Florida, practice their lasso skills in Wyoming, pick up Mardi Gras beads in Louisiana, send a postcard from West Virginia and peruse a Waffle House menu in Georgia.
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Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
26 June 2026
By the end of the movie, even something as natural as daylight has become suffused with a heavenly glow, and the beads of sweat on a dying body sparkle with a beauty that Emily had never been able to find anywhere else in her tragedy of a life.
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David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
26 June 2026
On June 25, Zendaya attended a photo-call in London wearing the slinky blue dress dripping in beads and charms, including a large spiderweb cascading down her back.
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Emily Tannenbaum,
Glamour,
25 June 2026
At the Sankofa Healing Studio booth, children created calming jars filled with beads and glitter while making bracelets with family members and friends.
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Eva Andersen,
CBS News,
21 June 2026
Noun
The colors change to indicate how saturated the beads are, and the dyes used contain hazardous chemicals.
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Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
29 June 2026
Combine gemstones, modern French tips, and your favorite team flag surrounded by beads for the win.
—
Amanda Le,
InStyle,
29 June 2026
Doechii’s version included contrasting brown and gold reptilian-print material as well as beads, sequins and tassel adornment.
—
Jaden Thompson,
Footwear News,
28 June 2026
Instead of beads and candy, the Alliance of Illinois Judges opted to distribute pocket-sized copies of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution from their trolley.
—
Christiana Freitag,
Chicago Tribune,
28 June 2026
Visitors can salsa dance in Puerto Rico, milk a mechanical cow in Michigan, walk through an orange-scented citrus grove in Florida, practice their lasso skills in Wyoming, pick up Mardi Gras beads in Louisiana, send a postcard from West Virginia and peruse a Waffle House menu in Georgia.
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Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
26 June 2026
By the end of the movie, even something as natural as daylight has become suffused with a heavenly glow, and the beads of sweat on a dying body sparkle with a beauty that Emily had never been able to find anywhere else in her tragedy of a life.
—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
26 June 2026
On June 25, Zendaya attended a photo-call in London wearing the slinky blue dress dripping in beads and charms, including a large spiderweb cascading down her back.
—
Emily Tannenbaum,
Glamour,
25 June 2026
At the Sankofa Healing Studio booth, children created calming jars filled with beads and glitter while making bracelets with family members and friends.
—
Eva Andersen,
CBS News,
21 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for beads
Noun
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The stones are arranged in an irregular composition intended to evoke falling droplets of water.
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The most seductive is a spectacular piece called the Untamed, which physically embodies the jeweler’s sensibilities in an 18-karat-white-gold strand of ivy with diamond leaves interspersed with tiny rock-crystal dew droplets.
Verb
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Like generations of potential treatments before it, KRSA-028 is designed to break down a protein called amyloid that clumps up in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients.
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However, sometimes the abnormal IgA (the antibody that clumps up and causes problems) does run in families.
Noun
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Bathroom sink drains can become clogged from hair, globs of toothpaste, and soapy residue.
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Bieber’s face artfully dotted with globs of lotion.
Noun
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For shoppers comparing options, the cheaper menu items at the same studios include standard IV drips and Restore’s $79 NAD+ bundle.
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Next Health’s most popular IV membership, at $299 a month, bundles two IV drips, two vitamin shots and monthly access to cryotherapy, infrared LED, hyperbaric oxygen and body composition scans, which is a useful benchmark for how the membership math actually works at a mid-tier clinic.
Noun
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Helitack crews – like the one from Rifle County – often parachute into remote areas and help coordinate water drops to extinguish the flames.
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That came on May 7 before a staggered series of price drops tempered by price-hike rebounds over the last seven weeks amid on-again and off-again peace talks in the Middle East.
Noun
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In cream, triglycerides are packaged into globules or crystals.
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Little, golden globules of fat are pooling on the surface like Monet lily pads.
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“Beads.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beads. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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