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sheaf

[sheef] / ʃif /


NOUN
package
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Nieuwenhuijsen reached out to Kars, who connected her with the middle-aged Dutch couple who had been safeguarding a sheaf of old Sablonière family letters in bundles of plastic bags—and were Nieuwenhuijsen’s own long-lost cousins.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

"I can talk about him forever, but that won't benefit the people of Bangladesh," the BNP leader said about the Islamist chief, to crowds waving flags with the party symbol, a sheaf of rice.

From Barron's ● Feb. 9, 2026

The piled sheaf of papers from his confession resembles a manuscript.

From Salon ● May 12, 2024

Marco Flores was months away from finishing his prison sentence when an immigration agent showed up last spring at the maximum-security Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, west of Boston, and handed him a sheaf of papers.

From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2023

Another sheet of paper flew from the sheaf and landed on her hands.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

Thus, along with their instruments they packed sheaves of what appeared to be sheet music but was in fact coded data.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

At his farm just outside Tunis, Hasan Chetoui stood clutching dry sheaves of wheat, the ears empty husks, after managing to save only 20 hectares of the 150 he planted.

From Reuters ● May 25, 2023

One depicted golden sheaves of wheat, another quarried gray ore, another the tufted wool of sheep.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2023

Her organization sees sheaves of Social Security numbers available as “buy-one-get-one” deals packaged with other consumer data on offer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2022

Now there seemed to be plenty of berries on the bark—they were well spaced, it was true, but the bark sheaves looked full.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich


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