sheaf
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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 long edge of each new 130-page sheaf was dipped into a pool of melting glue, then dropped into a U-shaped cover.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2024
The piled sheaf of papers from his confession resembles a manuscript.
From Salon ● May 12, 2024
Hermione dropped her spoon and pulled toward her the sheaf of notes and maps that she and Ron had been examining when Harry had entered the kitchen.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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
What follows is simply a sampler, a few sheaves from this fall’s rich and strange abundance.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 26, 2022
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
On the contrary, so long as they remain in conflict they prop one another up, like three sheaves of corn.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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