staple
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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
And its “We Have the Meats” campaign, now a long-running staple of its marketing, helped counter an earlier dip in sales.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
"This is definitely going to be a staple," he added.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
“Feeling unsure of myself is kind of the staple of my personality,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
If it had not been for the metal staple arresting the pivoting, he might actually have fallen inside the hutch.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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
A woman who works in the records office hands us three pages stapled together.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2025
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
Clearly, much has changed in my thinking about the criminal justice system since I passed that bright orange poster stapled to a telephone pole ten years ago.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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
Gilbert and Jaime produced their first issue themselves, printing pages and stapling them together by hand.
From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2022
He’d seen me stapling the cuffs of my jeans to keep them from dragging, and one night he showed me how to properly hem a pair of pants.
From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi
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