stale
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Every profession — finance and media and politics and insurance and real estate — has good eggs, bad eggs and stale eggs.
From MarketWatch • May 29, 2026
Panaderia El Cortez worker Esperanza Cancharí said the store had to throw out all of the pan dulce it had made fresh on Friday morning after it went stale during the evacuation.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
Being the office go-to for questions about emerging technology, just because of your age, gets stale fast.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
Even couples who make it well into a marriage contend with all the perils born from romance gone stale, including the functional discord clumsily realized in the sight-gag metaphor of “The Miniature Wife.”
From Salon • Apr. 23, 2026
She had already devoured the slightly stale loaf Molly had left in the kitchenette on the top floor of the cinema, their apartments, with a fistful of salt.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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