wad
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A series of messages guided him to a wad of cash hidden under some rubbish near the entrance to a footpath tunnel.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
A team staffer pulls a forgotten wad of blue painter’s tape off the floor.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
What active trader hasn’t fantasized about stepping out of their time-traveling DeLorean in October 1929, 1987 or 2007 with a wad of cash?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026
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
After he names his final price, I pull out the wad of rupees from my purse, and Zohra counts some and hands them over in defeat.
From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan
Little over four years ago, LIV threw wads of money at a host of star names and shook the sport to its core with its promise of revolution.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026
Her history of Kleenex tissues is a tour de force: We learn that the Kimberly-Clark Corp., which owns Kleenex, played on the fear that reusable handkerchiefs were essentially wads of tuberculosis germs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
They’re now showering him with pleasantries, well wishes, and wads of cash.
From Slate ● Dec. 17, 2024
Clark: Can they reach their backs with those wads of cash in their hands?
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2024
Tassels of toilet paper festooned every bar, and some thirty wads of toilet paper had been stuck to the walls with toothpaste.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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
“My color man took all the press notes, wadded them up and hit the tarantula like swinging a bat.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2026
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
When Nagornyy walked back to his teammates, he wadded up the athletic tape he was wearing into a ball and threw it in frustration.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 28, 2021
I guess Biddy didn’t hear, because she was still smilin’, but I got all wadded up in a worry knot.
From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles
The court also heard from Lucy Ness, who was given an urn containing "wadding and pieces of bone" instead of her baby's ashes.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
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
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
There was reportedly no wadding for the blanks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2021
He peers at the shipping label for a moment and then rips it in half, wadding it and tossing it into the trash.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
