the stuff

Example Sentences

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How they predicted some of the stuff, it beats me.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026

In the industrious south, automation is reshaping factories and supply chains, and megacities like Chongqing have become the stuff of influencers' feeds.

From BBC • May 12, 2026

This is, to put it plainly, the stuff of well-considered emotional rawness, painstaking portraiture of our collective pasts.

From Salon • May 12, 2026

Spinning coal into the stuff of modern life is inherently less efficient than the conventional petrochemicals industry, and far more carbon-intensive.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

Turned out they weren’t really goons—just a moving company with a meticulous checklist of all the stuff Benji and Felix had bought.

From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty