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“Feeling unsure of myself is kind of the staple of my personality,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

Chipotle shares, meanwhile, have fallen 11.7% over that period, amid a bigger fast-casual slump and malaise over pricier “slop bowls” that have become a staple in that segment of the restaurant industry.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

The move is the latest example of a traditional television staple migrating to a streaming service.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Ube was a staple of Philippine gardens as long as 5,000 years ago, boiled and eaten by families as a substitute to rice when their provisions ran out.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

“Here, staple a registration form to each flyer,” she tells me.

From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson

One problem was that her well-organized husband had stapled many invoices and other documents together.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026

A woman who works in the records office hands us three pages stapled together.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2025

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

He was so tired, his brain felt like someone had gone in and stapled it to his skull in a dozen places.

From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 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

Everybody laughs, including Stewart, who continues stapling until the chair seat's ugliness is snugly disguised.

From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2024

“A surprisingly large amount of time has been used looking for carts to put files on and staples for stapling files together,” Mr. Gunn said in an interview.

From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2022

“You might think about getting yourself another copy of your mother’s medical record and stapling it with all the pages in order to keep it all straight,” I said.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot