beaded

verb

past tense of bead
as in pelleted

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  1. clumped
  2. bunched
  3. lumped
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  • The heroine’s eyes are filled with yearning, her eyelashes glistening and ever-so-perfectly clumped?
    — Jeanne Ballion, Vogue, 5 July 2026
  • The same is true if the entire jar seems overly hardened or clumped into a solid mass.
    — Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 9 May 2026
Definition of clumped
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  • Skylrk Slouchy Socks bunched above a pair of unreleased Matter Daddy sneakers in the Latte colorway, while Speed Demon sunglasses in Jet supplied the narrow black frames.
    — Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 19 July 2026
  • Spain, England and Argentina are all a solid amount behind France in the odds, but are tightly bunched among themselves.
    — Dan Santaromita, New York Times, 13 July 2026
Definition of bunched
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  • Cramer said the stocks have been unfairly lumped together despite having vastly different businesses and AI strategies.
    — Alexa LoMonaco, CNBC, 9 July 2026
  • The performances of those groups might have resembled one another in some superficial way, but the individual politics of each do matter and shouldn’t be lumped together on account of aesthetics.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 7 July 2026
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