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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

A visitor lucky enough to cadge an invitation from a member might end up in the company of a Supreme Court justice, the master of an Oxford college or the editor of a London newspaper.

From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2024

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

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

"And if it comes to that. what must you people think of a down-at-heel Yankee who descends on you and cadges for a job after he's been told there's no work here for him?"

From Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story by Albert Payson Terhune

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

I remember sitting in a cafe one Sunday in my second year, having cadged two hours to study while Jon took the baby alone.

From BBC ● May 15, 2019

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

With an additional $500 cadged from the National Research Council, Lawrence ordered a custom magnet with nine-inch pole faces from the Federal Telegraph Company.

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

The custom dates back more than 150 years, but was stopped in 1909 by the local constabulary, which saw the "straw bears" as a form of "cadging", or begging, for rewards.

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2024

Recent headlines about a black bear found in Disney World and a video of another cadging lunch in front of a cowering mother and child have raised fears of attacks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2023

The women kibbutz and get through their days, eating and playing games and cadging cigarettes.

From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2023

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

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann