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staple

[stay-puhl] / ˈsteɪ pəl /


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But like every staple in modern life, spoiler anxiety didn’t turn ubiquitous overnight, even if it might seem that way.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

"This is definitely going to be a staple," he added.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Chipotle shares, meanwhile, have fallen 11.7% over that period, amid a bigger fast-casual slump and malaise over pricier “slop bowls” that have become a staple in that segment of the restaurant industry.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

Shares of healthcare firms, banks and consumer staple companies are declining.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

The winter of 1916–17 became known as the “turnip winter,” when that humble vegetable became the staple of many diets.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

Each quarter, 2.5% of Zuckerberg’s stapled Class C shares will be released, requiring eight years for all of these shares to be freely sellable.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

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

I paint the dark, miserable sky and the plastic bagging his parents have stapled over their windows.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson

The shares will be gradually released from stapling over a period of eight years according to a preset schedule.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 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

Birkmaier began the arduous process of inpainting the tiny cracks, the joined places around the perimeter, the repaired tears and the rough puncture marks from the stapling.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2022

She was stapling some mimeographed sheets of paper together.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger


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