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How to pronounce wads in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons
Type of large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity

Examples of wads

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We'd get thick wads of clippings, almost all of which were devoted to Schneider.
From the usatoday.com
A multibillionaire like Cuban has thousands of quarter-million wads lying around.
From the suntimes.com
Big US venture capital firms are stalking Australian start-ups with wads of cash.
From the smh.com.au
Yak is not the only fiber giving cashmere a run for its wads of money this season.
From the newsweek.com
He said Chirac would offer him a beer while putting the wads of cash into a vault.
From the guardian.co.uk
Shopkeepers make change from wads of renminbi stuffed in suitcases or pockets.
From the time.com
When it came time to pay, several of them drew out thick wads of crisp $100 bills.
From the time.com
The worms in the jars, big wads of them, look ugly enough to make anyone ill.
From the kentucky.com
These are the people rolling around in wads of cash and sipping chilled Moet.
From the couriermail.com.au
More examples
  • A small mass of soft material; "he used a wad of cotton to wipe the counter"
  • Pack: compress into a wad; "wad paper into the box"
  • Batch: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"
  • Jam: crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked"
  • Chew: a wad of something chewable as tobacco
  • (wads) tons: a large number or amount; "made lots of new friends"; "she amassed stacks of newspapers"
  • Wad is an old mining term for any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of various ore deposits. Typically closely associated with various iron oxides. Specific mineral varieties include pyrolusite, lithiophorite, nsutite, takanelite, and vernadite.
  • Wood, also spelled Wode, Woode, Woodde, or Wad is a surname of English origin that is common throughout the world, especially countries with historical links to Britain.
  • Doom WADs are package files for the video game Doom or its sequel Doom II, that contain sprites, levels, and game data. WAD stands for Where's All the Data?. ...