pad
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However, the singer previously revealed that her pad is just blocks away from Central Park.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
Millstein, an executive at real-estate investment firm Cerberus Capital Management, will likely lose a $13,000 annual abatement he receives on his Manhattan pad.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
Paul László’s “Atomville, U.S.A.,” a vision of suburbia half a century in the future, buried the family home beneath an earthen shell that doubled as a helicopter landing pad.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Trump pushed for a new granite helicopter landing pad on the White House South Lawn to be open in time for Xi's visit, which will include a grand state dinner.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
Even a modern computer cannot crack a message sent by the one-time pad system.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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Our job was to sort through the massive mailer box of padded envelopes and bubble mailers that came in from record labels, big, small and in-between.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
Taylor & Byrne is new, all glass and light; Cathcarts is dark wood and padded chairs; one assumes that earlier teams have occupied the space going back a century or more.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
The combined spending in the past two quarters on AI-related equipment even padded GDP more than consumer spending, typically the main conduit by which the economy grows.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 27, 2026
Blakesley said they padded out a rubble sack and tethered it to rope so it would float, before using a sample pole to gently nudge the eggs into the bag.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
Behind him, Ivan snuck up the path and padded past the tree toward Håkon.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
Arguably the damage might be less without all the padding, precisely because then your pain thresholds, and your bone fragility, limit how hard you can reasonably hit other players.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
“Stranger Beauty” seems less a light in the cosmos than a model for padding out the page count.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
And when one of us finally came padding down the wooden stairs, sleepy and rumpled and operating on a schedule she would never have personally endorsed, there was no reproach.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
Race organiser ASO issued a statement following Dutch media reports of concerns some riders had used bra padding as aerodynamic fairings to improve efficiency.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Her weary legs and arms were limp and all but collapsed onto the padding.
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
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