pad
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Misty carries herself imperiously, faking success with a Birkin bag and beachfront crash pad that belongs to a dead lover whose widow wants it back.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Trump pushed for a new granite helicopter landing pad on the White House South Lawn to be open in time for Xi's visit, which will include a grand state dinner.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
While her Tribeca pad was undergoing renovation, she resided in a West Village townhouse, which she reportedly paid $38,000 a month to live in from 2016 until 2017.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 7, 2026
The facility is the first dedicated landing pad at the White House.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Dr. Otten wrote it out on his prescription pad and handed it to him.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
Our job was to sort through the massive mailer box of padded envelopes and bubble mailers that came in from record labels, big, small and in-between.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
Conductor Raphaël Pichon, leading Pygmalion, his period-instrument orchestra and chorus, padded the “Requiem” with some additional Mozart works and Gregorian chants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
The combined spending in the past two quarters on AI-related equipment even padded GDP more than consumer spending, typically the main conduit by which the economy grows.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 27, 2026
Blakesley said they padded out a rubble sack and tethered it to rope so it would float, before using a sample pole to gently nudge the eggs into the bag.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
I eased the car door open noiselessly, then padded across the grass and slipped through the back door, moving silently through the house, reaching my hand out to feel my way to the filing cabinet.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
Arguably the damage might be less without all the padding, precisely because then your pain thresholds, and your bone fragility, limit how hard you can reasonably hit other players.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
“Stranger Beauty” seems less a light in the cosmos than a model for padding out the page count.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
And when one of us finally came padding down the wooden stairs, sleepy and rumpled and operating on a schedule she would never have personally endorsed, there was no reproach.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
Issues have reportedly been raised about padding in bras that could result in riders gaining one second per kilometre.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
She studied his old coat with the padding hanging out of the torn sleeve seam.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
