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Schwarzenegger made a pilgrimage to Washington to cadge more money from the government, but came home empty-handed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2025

One recent morning, a man dropped by Mr. Mishurov’s farmyard office to cadge a bucket of corn for his hens.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2018

Like desperately cadge for approval, which is sad, because people send nice notes and I don’t write back to those.

From Slate ● Mar. 21, 2017

Apparently this individual uses a variety of stories to cadge money, including claims of homelessness or a need to get to some distant city to see family.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 14, 2017

When they served grilled cheese or chicken sandwiches for lunch, I would cadge extras from the children who hardly ever cleaned their plates.

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter

Levi cadges a tube ticket from the audience to use as a guitar wedge, they speed through one last aggregation of choppy guitar jabs and frenetic percussion, and Micachu and the Shapes are gone.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 26, 2012

Fiennes, exuding sulfurous resolve as Hades, cadges some sympathy for a god who is asked to align with Zeus, the younger brother who consigned him to the lower depths.

From Time ● Mar. 29, 2012

To minimize costs, he is based at his sister's apartment in Miami during the winter and then cadges accommodations all over the world by networking in the close-knit sailing community.

From Chicago Tribune ● Feb. 1, 2012

He has become an asphalt urchin of Manhattan, where he cunningly cadges an existence off the body of a society that he believes is sick, bloated and dying.

From Time Magazine Archive

Limping Ned wot brought his duchess,   At home had left his wooden pegs— And Jim, wot cadges it on crutches,   Vos the nimblest covey on his legs.

From Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] by John Stephen Farmer

The sport also cadged elements from a women's version of basketball featuring player zone restrictions.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

Instead she took a too-expensive Motel 6 room, then couch-surfed, cadged a shared hotel room with a colleague and slept some nights in the airport — which isn’t allowed, she said, but “I chanced it.”

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 22, 2023

Later, when she orders the Athenian senators to step down or die, their unlikely answer — “We no longer are defensible” — is cadged from “Henry V.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2020

The battle scenes, which should have the taut realism and intensity of “The Hurt Locker,” instead feel like an unconvincing series of poses cadged from earlier, better war movies.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 16, 2019

That machine was developed without advice or assistance from Berkeley but with funding cadged from the Soviet regime very much by the Berkeley method: by stressing its potential contributions to medical research.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency told us again of babies cadging small-business loans and long-dead citizens collecting Social Security.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025

In 1920 he heads to America, cadging an on-deck meeting with Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2022

When we meet at the store a week before the CD's release, Latham is casually cadging a free coffee from one of her former colleagues.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2021

Before he got his band off the ground, he worked as a music journalist, cadging interviews with heroes like David Bowie and the Cure’s Robert Smith, hoping they’ll provide meaningful songwriting advice.

From Washington Post ● May 29, 2020

Recalling his previous work, he began looking for more, driving around ranches, cadging rides in private planes.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann