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pad

[pad] / pæd /


VERB
protect with cushioning
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK
simplify uncomplicate




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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

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

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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