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
Over the years, she performed in a number of films and TV series, landing notable roles that made her a staple of network television.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 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
Latiao were created in Pingjiang in 1998 as an emergency staple food, after devastating floods wiped out the local soybean crop.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
The house smelled of corn bread and beans, the Coalwood staple.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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
Instead, they got their visas stapled to a page in their passports.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 27, 2023
She hands me 4 sheets that are stapled together.
From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty
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
I nervously glanced at Mrs. Maxy and luckily she was busy stapling all the presidents’ heads on a bulletin board.
From "Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key" by Jack Gantos
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