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wedge

[wej] / wɛdʒ /


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He added that producers had "to be careful", though, "that this is not the thin end of a wedge where we cut things out".

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

The Shahed—a deceptively simple and destructive flying wedge of fiberglass, microchips and explosives costing as little as $20,000—helps show how weapons proliferation has changed, and why tapping global supply chains is now so important.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Even when Johnson produced a modest wedge shot, as he did on the 11th, he holed the putt from off the green to get to 18 under and place one hand on the inaugural trophy.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

But now it’s used to drive a wedge between groups of people, which is unfortunate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

Perhaps in time it would come to seem rugged, this chin like a wedge of cheese.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

Substituting raw wedges of tomato, which far too often can be floury and tasteless, for slow roasted plum tomatoes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

The paper included 15 wedges, three of which involved some form of carbon capture and eight of which involved using traditional fossil fuels, though in more efficient, or less polluting, ways.

From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026

Zooming through the air in a flying Sky-Sled, he wedges his face into a triple chin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026

And this week, even if bombed drives missed wide fairways, the belief was that players would be able to gouge wedges out of the thick rough onto greens and lead to a putt-off.

From BBC ● May 16, 2026

“Dos batidos de mango,” she said as she handed us the glasses garnished with little mango wedges.

From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya

Taken together, we see hope and its absence wedged in the backseat.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026

The excessive fines clause is the neglected middle child of the Eighth Amendment, wedged between excessive bail and cruel and unusual punishment, and almost never litigated.

From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026

Lacking space, some pitches have popped up inside warehouse buildings like one in Brooklyn, wedged between a trash-strewn highway and a pawnbroker.

From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026

Kolster stayed wedged between the front door and the stone wall in her seventh-storey apartment "for quite a while" before she heard neighbours calling for people to evacuate.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

Bess had found the barrette at the dance studio, wedged into a crack in the shelf under the pink and silver striped shoe box.

From "The Cinderella Ballet Mystery: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #4" by Carolyn Keene

So, they used their single off day on a three-city East Coast trip to make a pit stop in Washington, wedging the visit between games against the Phillies and Mets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

Artificial intelligence boosters spent the year wedging the tech into our lives – whether we wanted it or not.

From Slate ● Jan. 2, 2026

Owens and her family saved the house, wedging plywood underneath the doorways during the storm and mopping up water faster than it seeped inside.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025

England kept them to just the one score, with Cokayne wedging herself under Eva Karpani to deny the Australia prop a try during Australia's early period of ascendancy.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2025

I barricaded entry to the projection room, wedging items under and against the door so it could not be opened.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys




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