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The giant wad of cash splurged on all this would choke an elephant.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

What active trader hasn’t fantasized about stepping out of their time-traveling DeLorean in October 1929, 1987 or 2007 with a wad of cash?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026

Other dentists were less sure about the wad of yellowish stuff stuck between his left front tooth and the tooth next to it.

From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2025

Scottie Scheffler did not need another wad of world ranking points to prove what is already abundantly clear - he is by a distance the best golfer in the world.

From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2024

“Thanks,” I say as Emma hands over a wad of crumpled bills.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

A homeless man reversed the typical pattern by handing out wads of cash to strangers.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

Argentines for years have kept wads of cash at home as endless financial crises have eroded trust in the financial system.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2025

But at the time, the test involved a series of plastic balls, paper wads, and sponges—nothing like real waste.

From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2025

Sun, sea, global travel and massive wads of cash.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2023

That evening, in the privacy of his room, he tore the pages out in handfuls, crushing them into wads and tossing them into the garbage can.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

The crowd was further energized by the presence of longtime Count Basie drummer Jo Jones—sitting near the stage, keeping time with a wadded up Christian Science Monitor newspaper—and even more so by Elaine Anderson.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

The director Craig Belknap finds ingenuity in simplicity, as with a dishcloth that, at one point, is wadded up into a basketball then later flattened against the waist into a too-tight dress.

From New York Times ● May 4, 2023

During a sleepover that October, a group of Holy Child students took wadded up newspaper pages and stuck them in the chain-link fence on Linden Lane, spelling out “SURRENDER DOROTHY.”

From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 2023

All that shiny wrapping paper and ribbon, for instance, wadded into non-recyclable mounds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2022

Then he stuffed one wadded strip of cloth into the space between the boards.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry

As he said in 1857, what was the point of celebrating the Fourth if the Declaration was now treated as “mere rubbish—old wadding left to rot on the battlefield”?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

The next day I woke up and I thought” — he mimes wadding up a piece of paper and tossing it away — ‘That’s never going to happen.’

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025

It is a pastime that requires next-level commitment, though, as Ioan often spends days deep underground at a time, digging passages, or wadding through partially submerged caves.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2023

He meant, of course, robin’s egg blue, the shade of all Tiffany boxes, bags and wadding.

From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2019

He peers at the shipping label for a moment and then rips it in half, wadding it and tossing it into the trash.

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera