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Schwarzenegger made a pilgrimage to Washington to cadge more money from the government, but came home empty-handed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2025

The Framers were abjectly terrified that foreigners would give gifts to the president as a means to cadge their way to access and power.

From Slate ● May 12, 2025

A visitor lucky enough to cadge an invitation from a member might end up in the company of a Supreme Court justice, the master of an Oxford college or the editor of a London newspaper.

From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2024

One recent morning, a man dropped by Mr. Mishurov’s farmyard office to cadge a bucket of corn for his hens.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2018

Sam Houston tried to cadge a beer and was properly rebuffed.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

Levi cadges a tube ticket from the audience to use as a guitar wedge, they speed through one last aggregation of choppy guitar jabs and frenetic percussion, and Micachu and the Shapes are gone.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 26, 2012

Fiennes, exuding sulfurous resolve as Hades, cadges some sympathy for a god who is asked to align with Zeus, the younger brother who consigned him to the lower depths.

From Time ● Mar. 29, 2012

To minimize costs, he is based at his sister's apartment in Miami during the winter and then cadges accommodations all over the world by networking in the close-knit sailing community.

From Chicago Tribune ● Feb. 1, 2012

Trevor cadges 40 winks on a sofa at Nick and Jan's, an excruciating indulgence, in Nick's helpless view, since Trevor had once been Jan's lover.

From Time Magazine Archive

"And if it comes to that. what must you people think of a down-at-heel Yankee who descends on you and cadges for a job after he's been told there's no work here for him?"

From Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story by Albert Payson Terhune

The sport also cadged elements from a women's version of basketball featuring player zone restrictions.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

Instead she took a too-expensive Motel 6 room, then couch-surfed, cadged a shared hotel room with a colleague and slept some nights in the airport — which isn’t allowed, she said, but “I chanced it.”

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 22, 2023

But even those bits are little more than cliches cadged straight from the Carrie Fisher handbook.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2020

His mother had died when he was 10, leaving him with his father, who cadged work as a mechanic.

From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2019

With an additional $500 cadged from the National Research Council, Lawrence ordered a custom magnet with nine-inch pole faces from the Federal Telegraph Company.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency told us again of babies cadging small-business loans and long-dead citizens collecting Social Security.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025

Recent headlines about a black bear found in Disney World and a video of another cadging lunch in front of a cowering mother and child have raised fears of attacks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2023

The women kibbutz and get through their days, eating and playing games and cadging cigarettes.

From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2023

The custom dates back more than 150 years, but was stopped by the local constabulary in 1909, which saw the "straw bears" as a form of "cadging", or begging, for rewards.

From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2023

Lawrence had spent a difficult year cadging money from philanthropists and foundations for a proton accelerator, the purpose of which had to be explained to them in the abstract terms of basic science.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik