padding

“Do I need to hire more people? Is this going to slow down at all?” says Porter, who attributes the surge in part to stock-market gains padding boomers’ retirement savings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

Those who describe their career strategies as "lily padding" are always on the lookout for the next opportunity.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

In terms of narrative, however, there is not enough to sustain a full season without some serious padding.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

There was Molly Hollis, a middle-aged, Midwestern former schoolteacher whose creation required body padding and a wig; a flamboyant redhead; a nearly invisible elderly woman; and, most uncannily, Reichl’s own mother.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

I’d heard her up last night, padding around the two rooms like a house cat and staring out at the moon.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

The freshly dead were still encased in woolen paddings or blue uniforms.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was something intolerable in their noiseless, ceaseless paddings over the pavement.

From The Lost Continent by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne

I have got rid of the trammels pretty well,—haven't I?—have unshackled myself, and thrown off the paddings, and the wrappings, and the swaddling clothes.

From He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope

And billah, she has stuffings and paddings, too.

From The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani

Fancy stitches and cunning invention which provided for thrice the usual number of cartridges told one tale; flannel paddings which sought to make of the military appointment a winter garment told another.

From The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900 by Filson Young