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staple

[stay-puhl] / ˈsteɪ pəl /


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We have seen several LGBTQ+ staple venues have their Meta accounts restricted, blocked, and taken down — with no clear reason why.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Rob Medhurst credits the student staple of spaghetti bolognese as being his springboard onto greater dishes.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

Rice is a dietary staple for more than half of the world's population, but scientists still have much to learn about its nutritional makeup.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

She said fancy salt is always well received because it’s an elevated version of an everyday staple that most people use.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

Her tirade was a staple of the yard.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

One problem was that her well-organized husband had stapled many invoices and other documents together.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026

In contrast, a running joke about the Donald obsessing about his hair has a fun, if gleefully nasty payoff in an episode involving Trump getting his head surgically stapled to impede his male pattern baldness.

From Salon ● Nov. 10, 2024

“Crypto dot com Arena? Staples Center is so stapled to my brain that I can’t call it anything else.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2024

Merrill stapled old rock ‘n roll posters directly to the cedar walls of his “man room” to echo the way music posters are stapled to telephone poles.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 29, 2024

There are exposed pipes in the bathrooms, wires stapled over doorsills, nails protruding from beams.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

I was literally stapling posters to telephone poles—“playing here on Friday.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Through a technique known as peptide stapling, the research team modified the B-chain of relaxin-3, replacing blocks of amino acids within them with artificial ones that introduce 'chemical bridges' between them.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 20, 2024

Everybody laughs, including Stewart, who continues stapling until the chair seat's ugliness is snugly disguised.

From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2024

Gilbert and Jaime produced their first issue themselves, printing pages and stapling them together by hand.

From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2022

I will be working in the school office, filing papers, stapling letters, that kind of stuff.

From "The Skin I'm In" by Sharon G. Flake




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