staple
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The song has become a staple of commercial radio station playlists and been streamed more than 48 million times on Spotify alone.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Since then, the Goldenvoice festival focused on early aughts indie rock has become a staple, popping up annually at Brookside at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
As 39 states move to restrict cellphones in classrooms, the Evo is doubling down on what made the TI-84 a staple in classrooms, functioning as a distraction-free device that fulfills academic math needs.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
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
The staple gun was where the hacksaw was supposed to go.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
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
“Relationships were relentlessly stapled out of cardboard and then wrapped in cellophane with professional-looking bows,” Hermetz wrote.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2023
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
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
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
Hanging with Char and them in the bathroom is more fun than stapling papers in the school office.
From "The Skin I'm In" by Sharon G. Flake
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