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The genre has become a staple of the podcast industry, which took in $9.2 billion in global revenue last year, according to media consulting firm Owl & Co.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Most ingeniously, Cole decided that foul balls caught by fans were recorded as outs—a heretical breaking of the fourth wall that became a Banana Ball staple.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

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

After four years in which he became a staple in the Lakers’ lineup, Hachimura returned to face his former team for the first time as a Clipper on Friday at Crypto.com Arena.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

Racing, a sport whose sustained dramatic action was ideally suited to narration, became a staple of the airwave.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

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 had never gone to graduate school, and although several of my stories had been Xeroxed and stapled, none of them had ever been published in the traditional sense of the word.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

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

Eventually, at Mario’s suggestion, they put out an issue on their own, borrowing money from another brother to print it, folding and stapling the copies themselves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2022

He stared at it briefly, then inserted his four-year-old letter in the middle pages, where the stapling in a manuscript is tightest.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger