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
Fittingly, the four-and-a-half hours leading up to them feel like a sheaf of love letters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025
The piled sheaf of papers from his confession resembles a manuscript.
From Salon ● May 12, 2024
At eight o’clock Doctor Copeland sat at his desk, studying a sheaf of papers by the bleak morning light from the window.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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Mr. Holland’s information about the sheaves of Wilde forgeries that bedeviled booksellers’ shelves in the 1930s?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 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
Perhaps it had been lost in a comical mix-up involving two identical sheaves of paper, in which Penelope’s notes were mistakenly swapped for, say, a collection of soup recipes.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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