See wad in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "2012 January 17, Deborah Lake, Growling Over The Oceans: Avro Shackleton: The Men and the Missions:",
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"ref": "2000, Ian Cappell, The Awakening, London: Prowler Books, →ISBN:",
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"ref": "2003, Harlyn Aizley, Buying Dad: One Woman's Search for the Perfect Sperm Donor, Los Angeles, Calif.: Alyson Books, →ISBN, page 70:",
"text": "It's a strange thing this yellow liquid, the bodily fluid of a stranger. What was he thinking when he shot his wad? Is he somewhere now wondering about his sperm? Is he at this very moment wondering if a woman somewhere is inseminating with his seed? Well, we are! Here we are in Boston, and we are!",
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"ref": "2001, Peter F. Murphy, Studs, Tools, and the Family Jewels: Metaphors Men Live By, Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 44:",
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"ref": "2008, Chaucer Malone, Miguk, the Holy Man, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 490:",
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"word": "plik (banknotów)"
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"word": "герма"
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"word": "bouchon"
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"word": "Vorschlag"
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"word": "décharge"
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"text": "She wadded up the scrap of paper and threw it in the trash.",
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"ref": "1676, John Evelyn, A Philosophical Discourse of Earth, London: John Martyn, page 181:",
"text": "[…] if you lay any fearnbrakes or other trash about them to entertain the moisture, and skreen it from the heat, let it not be wadded so close, or suffer’d to lie so long, as to contract any mustiness, but rather loose and easie, that the Air may have free intercourse, and to break the more intense ardours of the scorching Sun-beams.",
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"ref": "1930, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 11, in The Maltese Falcon, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, page 122:",
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"ref": "1957 May, Jim Thompson, Alfred Hitchcock's Suspense Magazine, page 10, column 1:",
"text": "Mitch wadded the note, and tossed it over the cliff.",
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"ref": "1969, Margaret Atwood, chapter 25, in The Edible Woman, New York: Popular Library, published 1976, page 228:",
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"ref": "1721, John Midriff, Observations on the Spleen and Vapours, London: J. Roberts, pages 7–8:",
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"ref": "1851, Richard Francis Burton, chapter 1, in Goa, and the Blue Mountains, London: Richard Bentley, page 11:",
"text": "Could you believe it possible that through such a night as this they choose to sleep under those wadded cotton coverlets, and dread not instantaneous asphixiation?",
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"ref": "1871, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book 2, Chapter 20:",
"text": "If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.",
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"word": "rouler en boule"
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"ref": "2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour: Travels Through the Paintbox, Sceptre, published 2003, →ISBN, page 96:",
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