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But now it’s used to drive a wedge between groups of people, which is unfortunate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

What forged McElwee’s passion and helped him establish his life’s work now reveals its dual nature as the wedge that kept him and Adrian apart.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026

Walking out to the pitch, Messi leads, De Paul at his side, the rest of the squad fanning out behind almost in a wedge - like a street gang protecting its leader.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

It cuts across the Garden like a horizontal wedge between the train station below and the stadium floor above.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026

It was dry, unappetising, cut in a wedge from the outside; but I had not the courage to refuse it.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

Substituting raw wedges of tomato, which far too often can be floury and tasteless, for slow roasted plum tomatoes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

Zooming through the air in a flying Sky-Sled, he wedges his face into a triple chin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026

And this week, even if bombed drives missed wide fairways, the belief was that players would be able to gouge wedges out of the thick rough onto greens and lead to a putt-off.

From BBC ● May 16, 2026

"It was really nice to see some good wedges go my way, and knock in some of the nice six- and eight-foot putts that you have to."

From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026

I sliced the watermelon half into quarters and cut the fruit into thick wedges.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

The excessive fines clause is the neglected middle child of the Eighth Amendment, wedged between excessive bail and cruel and unusual punishment, and almost never litigated.

From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026

A bottle of washing up liquid has been hailed as the "real hero" by a cave rescue team who used it to help free a school girl who became wedged in rocks for several hours.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

A ridge of high pressure drawing hot air from North Africa is wedged between two areas of low pressure, one in central Europe and the other off the coast of Portugal.

From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026

Besides filler injections, there’s also tape designed to create a similar effect when wedged behind the ears.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

Once the mail’s sorted, I turn on the computer to check the marina’s email and notice another envelope that I missed, wedged behind the monitor.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

Artificial intelligence boosters spent the year wedging the tech into our lives – whether we wanted it or not.

From Slate ● Jan. 2, 2026

Owens and her family saved the house, wedging plywood underneath the doorways during the storm and mopping up water faster than it seeped inside.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025

England kept them to just the one score, with Cokayne wedging herself under Eva Karpani to deny the Australia prop a try during Australia's early period of ascendancy.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2025

Running the simulations, the scientists saw that it was much easier for the capsid to get into the pore by wedging its smallest end in first, and then gradually ratcheting itself in.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 25, 2024

He could hold a spoon by wedging it between his index finger, which bowed upward, and his ring finger, which curved downward, but he ate with difficulty.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover