bud
has budded
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present perfectof bud (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The declarative dialogue, some of the riper acting from the bit-parters – they feel as though they're hand-me-downs from older art forms, like oral storytelling, that Nollywood has budded out of.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 21, 2012
"The flower that has budded from a deep sacramental life."
From Time Magazine Archive
The antisprawl design movement emphasizing small homes, spaced tightly in walkable communities, has budded in cities, suburbsand now small towns.
From Time Magazine Archive
Brothers," I said quietly, "a new rose has budded in Tryon County.
From The Reckoning by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
"I guess I must look in the dictionary for 'invidious'; but a daisy's a flower that has budded in the green fields of England, where there aren't any newspaper reporters or other strange bugs."
From Lady Betty Across the Water by Orson Lowell
