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After each pitch, the host asks audience members to hold up their paddle, which has a green thumbs up and a red thumbs down to indicate whether they agree or disagree.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

Moments earlier, he’d gushed to a buddy that he was “so stoked” to paddle out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

On Thursday, the beachside felt calm as a woman was leisurely paddle boarding in the shallows while children played on the beach.

From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026

The regenerative braking thresholds are adjustable by way of a paddle shifter on the back of the steering wheel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026

Laura stood on a chair and watched the pumpkin for Ma, and stirred it with a wooden paddle.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Griffin added it was sad to see closures for a second summer running, but she stopped short of blaming maintenance issues alone, pointing to boaters who had hit gates or left lock paddles open.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

The car I drove, the 420 Sport, uses a Mercedes-AMG-supplied 2.0-liter turbo-four and eight-speed dual-clutch automated transaxle, actuated with beautifully weighted shift paddles behind the steering wheel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

German media have broadcast the hapless creature lying motionless in shallow water for hours on end, with men in diving suits splashing water on it using kayak paddles.

From Barron's ● Apr. 23, 2026

“Yeeaaah,” most of them yell, waving their green paddles in the air.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026

Air-postmen glide about in open-top dirigibles with hooks and paddles to help guide the balloons along.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

Footage shot up and down the US east coast showed seaside homes battered by large waves while kayakers paddled through flooded city streets.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

Ahmed said the waves were "quite small" when members of his group paddled with "their legs in the water".

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

In 2002, a former math and science teacher and prison guard named John Darwin paddled a kayak into the North Sea from his home in Seaton Carew, England, and disappeared.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2026

We chose a tandem canoe and paddled our way up and down the river, watching the wildlife and soaking up the sun.

From Salon ● Jan. 13, 2026

He paddled on to the next corner, slowly and silently.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

“The current against us is strong, and we’re paddling as hard as we can,” Margolius said.

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026

The accident took place near the iconic Steamer Lane surf break, described by Surfer Today as the heart and soul of Santa Cruz surfing where locals have been paddling out since the 1930s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

Several private schools in Ohio and Virginia permit paddling as discipline even though those states outlaw corporal punishment in public schools.

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026

The restrictions mean, from Thursday, hosepipes should not be used for watering gardens or allotments, cleaning cars, filling paddling pools or swimming pools, or cleaning windows.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

I tap on Camila’s Instagram Story, watching for the millionth time as she waves happily to the camera from a kayak, holding the phone over her head to show Mya paddling frantically behind her.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott