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“It’s very me and I really love it,” the author said of the four-bedroom, three-bathroom, 2,929-square-foot pad, which has been listed by Cody Thompson of Resident Group.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
The facility is the first dedicated landing pad at the White House.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
The fully assembled vehicle will then be moved to the launch pad at Launch Complex 39A.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
I trained as best I could, walking four or five hours a day on a walking pad in my parents’ basement, wearing a weighted vest—preparing for a 1,000-year-old pilgrimage by cosplaying as a hamster.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Kennedy picked up a pen and pad and wrote: “99.2 degrees temperature. Upper respiratory infection. Doctor says he should return to Washington.”
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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The real breakthrough here is the padded wrist support in the center console, helping to alleviate touch-screen tendinitis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 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
She cocked her head, padded cautiously across the patio, and hid beneath a chair.
From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2026
They owe their movie-theater aroma to their urine, which gets on their padded paws and tail, according to zoo officials.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
A snow leopard padded out of the brush, sleek and covered with speckled smoky-gray fur.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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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
There was the helmet with a safe amount of padding and the padding-deprived helmet that may have been obtained with a vanilla sundae at Dairy Queen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Yesterday, over 18 painstaking hours, teams of French and British conservators and British Museum staff unfurled the 70-metre long artwork from the folding stand where it had been concertinaed, surrounded by protective mattress-type padding.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
To achieve a similar impact, Johnson appears to be wearing a muscular silicone suit over his 6-foot-5 frame, but the extra padding just makes his head look puny.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
They were trotting toward the hall, their mounts’ hooves and feet padding noiselessly on the dry sand at the sea’s edge.
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
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