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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

She said: "So they gave me a wad of leaflets, and then goodbye, shook hands and went out through the door. Well, I was dumbfounded actually."

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2025

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

He fished out a wad of paper that contained more black ash, which he began mixing with the other potion.

From "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" by William Kamkwamba

A video released by the interior ministry showed police removing wads of cash from the ambulance's panels.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

Shorter cords are also less likely to end up in knotted wads.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

They’re now showering him with pleasantries, well wishes, and wads of cash.

From Slate ● Dec. 17, 2024

The wads of cash scattered all over Victor's kitchen floor.

From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke

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

“My color man took all the press notes, wadded them up and hit the tarantula like swinging a bat.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2026

In recent years, the northern end of Post Alley has become a circus funhouse of wadded, spittle-hardened goo.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 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

Mr. Tuffett took her note, wadded it up without reading it, and threw it at the wastepaper basket.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

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

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

They lack the deadly bullet point, which is usually replaced with cotton or paper wadding.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2021

Blanks can still be dangerous because they involve gunpowder and paper wadding or wax, which provide a flame and spark, which look good on camera.

From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2021

But Rondell just looked at me with a blank face, wadding up the plate I’d just given him, and told me: “Who?”

From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña