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Instead she took a too-expensive Motel 6 room, then couch-surfed, cadged a shared hotel room with a colleague and slept some nights in the airport — which isn’t allowed, she said, but “I chanced it.”

From Seattle Times • Dec. 22, 2023

But even those bits are little more than cliches cadged straight from the Carrie Fisher handbook.

From Washington Post • Oct. 6, 2020

Later, when she orders the Athenian senators to step down or die, their unlikely answer — “We no longer are defensible” — is cadged from “Henry V.”

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2020

I remember sitting in a cafe one Sunday in my second year, having cadged two hours to study while Jon took the baby alone.

From BBC • May 15, 2019

That machine was developed without advice or assistance from Berkeley but with funding cadged from the Soviet regime very much by the Berkeley method: by stressing its potential contributions to medical research.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik