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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
I follow him, my arms wrapped tightly around my sketch pad.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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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
A snow leopard padded out of the brush, sleek and covered with speckled smoky-gray fur.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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The padding provides short-term protection against broken bones, but at terrible long-term cost.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
Meanwhile, Sheppey United, in Kent, has a concrete supporting wall around two sides of its 3G pitch, which will be covered in padding.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 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
He was catching flies and eating them, and was keeping note of his capture by making nail-marks on the edge of the door between the ridges of padding.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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