wad
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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
The wife of a dementia patient has said she was "dumbfounded" after only being offered "a wad of leaflets" after his diagnosis.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2025
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
Other dentists were less sure about the wad of yellowish stuff stuck between his left front tooth and the tooth next to it.
From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2025
He stood there like he wanted to say something before hesitantly reaching into his pocket and pulling out a wad of bills.
From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss
Argentines for years have kept wads of cash at home as endless financial crises have eroded trust in the financial system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2025
He posed for photos holding Rolex watches and expensive cigars, and pretending to eat wads of banknotes.
From BBC ● May 7, 2025
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
Street currency dealers holding wads of money and openly soliciting for clients were a feature of Zimbabwe’s urban architecture for years.
From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2024
Just bloody wads of paper on the ground.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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
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
Then he stuffed one wadded strip of cloth into the space between the boards.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
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
The first idea that sounds good to me is mentally wadding up and throwing away any labels for your emotional self.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 11, 2021
There was reportedly no wadding for the blanks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2021
“You have three hours, and don’t expect me to help. I’m studying for the SATs,” Maribel says, wadding squishy orange plugs into her ears as she takes out a laptop and reclines in her seat.
From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio
