wad
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Take, for instance, the dapper child who grimaces squarely at the camera with a wad of cash in his hands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
She said: "So they gave me a wad of leaflets, and then goodbye, shook hands and went out through the door. Well, I was dumbfounded actually."
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2025
The wife of a dementia patient has said she was "dumbfounded" after only being offered "a wad of leaflets" after his diagnosis.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2025
These commitments are important, as they give Kennedy something to wad up and christen his wastebasket with when he steps into his new office.
From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2025
It came out somewhere between a whisper and a wad of phlegm.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
Shorter cords are also less likely to end up in knotted wads.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
But at the time, the test involved a series of plastic balls, paper wads, and sponges—nothing like real waste.
From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2025
When word somehow got out that wads of money on the plane were allegedly changing hands, another group of security staff charged onto the aircraft and arrested those inside.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2023
“It’s a wonder I didn’t get killed,” said Mrs. K., who pulled wads of $100 bills from her purse at the three bitcoin deposit machines as strangers watched.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2023
A little kid sculpted lumpy wads of sushi with his hand and stuffed his face.
From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya
The crowd was further energized by the presence of longtime Count Basie drummer Jo Jones—sitting near the stage, keeping time with a wadded up Christian Science Monitor newspaper—and even more so by Elaine Anderson.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
“My color man took all the press notes, wadded them up and hit the tarantula like swinging a bat.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2026
When Nagornyy walked back to his teammates, he wadded up the athletic tape he was wearing into a ball and threw it in frustration.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 28, 2021
I look guiltily over at the knot of wadded white blankets and sheets on my still-damp bed.
From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2017
Dimitri crushed the program he was carrying into a wadded ball, and tossed it at the young man.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
The court also heard from Lucy Ness, who was given an urn containing "wadding and pieces of bone" instead of her baby's ashes.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
As he said in 1857, what was the point of celebrating the Fourth if the Declaration was now treated as “mere rubbish—old wadding left to rot on the battlefield”?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
The first idea that sounds good to me is mentally wadding up and throwing away any labels for your emotional self.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 11, 2021
The statement was posted with a hashtag:#BanBlanks, calling for an end to the use of blank cartridges, which contain gunpowder and paper wadding or wax.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2021
But Rondell just looked at me with a blank face, wadding up the plate I’d just given him, and told me: “Who?”
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
