- plural of scad.
scads
Example Sentences
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Generally, scads of slack signal weakness and tend to place a lid on companies’ ability to raise prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
They were united in fury, raising scads of cash—and, really, it doesn’t get better than that.
From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2024
For the faithful, “The Acolyte” serves up scads of Jedi, a franchise fundamental that the other live-action “Star Wars” TV shows have depicted sparingly or not at all.
From New York Times ● May 29, 2024
They are celebrities and public figures, netting contracts, scads of money and millions of fans along the way.
From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2023
Regardless of whether the engineers conducted a test in a wind tunnel or in free flight, the output was the same: torrents, scads, bundles, reams, masses, mounds, jumbles, piles, and goo-gobs of numbers.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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