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
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
Other dentists were less sure about the wad of yellowish stuff stuck between his left front tooth and the tooth next to it.
From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2025
Scottie Scheffler did not need another wad of world ranking points to prove what is already abundantly clear - he is by a distance the best golfer in the world.
From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2024
Paula plucked a wad of gum out of her mouth and mashed it into the ashtray.
From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English
A video released by the interior ministry showed police removing wads of cash from the ambulance's panels.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
Half an hour before the auction begins, the better-heeled buyers—including Drolma—set up their scales in the main hall, clutching fat wads of crisp, red 100-yuan bills.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
A homeless man reversed the typical pattern by handing out wads of cash to strangers.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
They’re now showering him with pleasantries, well wishes, and wads of cash.
From Slate ● Dec. 17, 2024
Renzo shouted as Barbarossa held out two wads of bills toward him.
From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke
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
The painting is a large-scale, squarish, predominantly black canvas, with two pairs of actual woolen pants wadded up on the surface.
From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2022
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
She saw an oily handprint on the kitchen wall and a wadded handkerchief on the couch in the living room.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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
It is a pastime that requires next-level commitment, though, as Ioan often spends days deep underground at a time, digging passages, or wadding through partially submerged caves.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2023
On some trips, the boys would convince Dad to play football, wadding up a sock to serve as their pigskin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2023
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
He might be a little cold this day without the wadding of the winter garments, but he suddenly could not bear to put them on against his clean flesh.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
