wad
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Take, for instance, the dapper child who grimaces squarely at the camera with a wad of cash in his hands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
She said: "So they gave me a wad of leaflets, and then goodbye, shook hands and went out through the door. Well, I was dumbfounded actually."
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2025
These commitments are important, as they give Kennedy something to wad up and christen his wastebasket with when he steps into his new office.
From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2025
Scottie Scheffler did not need another wad of world ranking points to prove what is already abundantly clear - he is by a distance the best golfer in the world.
From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2024
No big wad of cash money from Mr. Nagahachi.
From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
A video released by the interior ministry showed police removing wads of cash from the ambulance's panels.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
Half an hour before the auction begins, the better-heeled buyers—including Drolma—set up their scales in the main hall, clutching fat wads of crisp, red 100-yuan bills.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
A homeless man reversed the typical pattern by handing out wads of cash to strangers.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
But at the time, the test involved a series of plastic balls, paper wads, and sponges—nothing like real waste.
From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2025
Eccentric souls with too much money in their pockets and far too much time on their hands, they had blown thick wads of cash on preposterous machines called automobiles.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
The crowd was further energized by the presence of longtime Count Basie drummer Jo Jones—sitting near the stage, keeping time with a wadded up Christian Science Monitor newspaper—and even more so by Elaine Anderson.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
In recent years, the northern end of Post Alley has become a circus funhouse of wadded, spittle-hardened goo.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2023
The director Craig Belknap finds ingenuity in simplicity, as with a dishcloth that, at one point, is wadded up into a basketball then later flattened against the waist into a too-tight dress.
From New York Times ● May 4, 2023
All that shiny wrapping paper and ribbon, for instance, wadded into non-recyclable mounds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2022
He reached into his pocket and pulled out a few wadded dollar bills.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
As he said in 1857, what was the point of celebrating the Fourth if the Declaration was now treated as “mere rubbish—old wadding left to rot on the battlefield”?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
It is a pastime that requires next-level commitment, though, as Ioan often spends days deep underground at a time, digging passages, or wadding through partially submerged caves.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2023
On some trips, the boys would convince Dad to play football, wadding up a sock to serve as their pigskin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2023
Composed of salvaged vintage linen or dupioni silk and stuffed with mattresslike wadding and sometimes pieces of wood for stability, they only look hard; in reality, they’re soft, even slightly yielding.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2022
And then, as if she had just now remembered, she unhooked the clasp of her gold necklace and took it off, wadding the chain and the jade pendant in her palm.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
