padding
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Arguably the damage might be less without all the padding, precisely because then your pain thresholds, and your bone fragility, limit how hard you can reasonably hit other players.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 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
There was the helmet with a safe amount of padding and the padding-deprived helmet that may have been obtained with a vanilla sundae at Dairy Queen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Issues have reportedly been raised about padding in bras that could result in riders gaining one second per kilometre.
From BBC ● Aug. 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
Observe the “antediluvian” shape of the bat—no paddings on the legs.
From Pickwickian Manners and Customs by Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald
The book, when pulled to pieces, without end papers and sewing, should be about one-sixth thinner than with the paddings of the cover, thin books, of course, a little more.
From Practical Bookbinding by Paul Adam
The paddings of civilisation may be useful, yet Gilbert held more valuable a realisation of the realities of things.
From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Maisie Ward
And billah, she has stuffings and paddings, too.
From The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani
