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[stey-puhl] / ˈsteɪ pəl /


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The exhibit has a set of Staple Singers stage wear—the three sisters’ striking matching dresses and “Pops” Staples’s ice-cream suit and iconic guitar.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 20, 2025

As part of The Staple Singers, she helped provide the soundtrack for the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, as well as the long Black Freedom Struggle.

From Salon • Jun. 17, 2025

The Specials singer Neville Staple has announced a cancellation of all gigs and festival performances after being diagnosed with a serious heart defect.

From BBC • Jan. 18, 2024

Staple foods like wheat flour and breakfast cereals are regularly fortified to ensure that we consume enough iron each day to stave off this important nutritional shortfall.

From Science Daily • Nov. 15, 2023

Gray's Inn is in Holborn, as well as Staple Inn, with the picturesque old-fashioned frontage, once the prevailing style of London's domestic architecture.

From Cathedral Cities of England by Gilbert, George




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