padding
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A widened shot to win the championship should incentivize schools to stop the padding and play tougher opponents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 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
Those who describe their career strategies as "lily padding" are always on the lookout for the next opportunity.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 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
The maids moved softly around her, padding to and fro from their ticking.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
The freshly dead were still encased in woolen paddings or blue uniforms.
From Time Magazine Archive
And billah, she has stuffings and paddings, too.
From The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani
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
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
Her gowns were even pressed here and there among their paddings.
From Mistress Penwick by Dutton Payne
