wad
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Roberto Carlos carefully carves a skull adorned with an elegant hat into a wad of deep purple paper 50 sheets deep.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 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
Like a wad of gum dropped on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025
These commitments are important, as they give Kennedy something to wad up and christen his wastebasket with when he steps into his new office.
From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2025
My mother was folding a wad of newspaper and putting it under the wobbly kitchen table.
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
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
He posed for photos holding Rolex watches and expensive cigars, and pretending to eat wads of banknotes.
From BBC ● May 7, 2025
Taking my time, I dry the sweat from my armpits with wads of high-quality, ultra-soft toilet paper.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
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
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
All that shiny wrapping paper and ribbon, for instance, wadded into non-recyclable mounds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2022
The painting is a large-scale, squarish, predominantly black canvas, with two pairs of actual woolen pants wadded up on the surface.
From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2022
She wadded up her paper and threw it across the room, where it bounced off the reindeer antlers that were now sitting next to the raven box.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
The court also heard from Lucy Ness, who was given an urn containing "wadding and pieces of bone" instead of her baby's ashes.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
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
Composed of salvaged vintage linen or dupioni silk and stuffed with mattresslike wadding and sometimes pieces of wood for stability, they only look hard; in reality, they’re soft, even slightly yielding.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2022
The first idea that sounds good to me is mentally wadding up and throwing away any labels for your emotional self.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 11, 2021
He did not want this woman to see him for the first time with the wadding sticking out of his clothes.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
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