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You can credit an economy that has turned international travel from a luxury to a staple for many.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

They became a staple of the indie scene through the 2000s, and fit in with the broader, decluttered millennial aesthetic that emerged in the 2010s.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

Indigenous Andean communities were the first to domesticate the starch-rich crop, turning it into a dietary staple long before potatoes spread around the world.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026

But the new push of brand extensions is aimed at ensuring the game remains a cultural staple for future generations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

“Now, we staple on the coated wire and we’re done,” Mr. Larkin says, sitting back on his heels.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

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

And the menu itself was a sad stapled printout — this place should obviously have brown-leather-bound menus.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2024

Some of the napkins are stapled at the top, like a booklet.

From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King

Iona is perched on a table by a windowsill, stapling albums to the ceiling as decor to liven up the record store she runs — not that the place needs much livening-up, considering Iona’s look.

From Salon ● Feb. 28, 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

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

From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2022

More than a hundred Seattle educators gathered on Labor Day at Judkins Park, stapling and taping signs to wooden pickets in preparation for a potential strike.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 5, 2022

After all that designing, measuring, cutting, sewing, pinning, stapling, gluing, and Velcro-ing?

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins