as in rolled
to form into a round compact mass
she wadded up the paper and threw it in the wastebasket took the paper off the straw and wadded it up
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His 17-foot birdie chance on the 18th rolled along the right edge of the cup at perfect speed and didn’t drop.
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Neither team scored after López snapped a 1-all tie in the fourth when his line drive rolled to the warning track in right and scored Stowers from first.
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Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, and Robert Shaw led a cast rounded out by Martha's Vineyard locals.
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Disney’s presence will be rounded off with its traditional night barbecue bringing together all of it divisions on the last Friday.
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Lord described Walter Bedford as the night baker who cannon-balled into the ocean in chapter 6.
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Jokic came off a pin-down from Braun to catch on the right wing — again making Gobert chase him around a screen — but air-balled the 3-pointer.
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“Wadded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wadded. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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