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This luxury product, believed by those in the industry to melt more slowly than regular blocks, is a staple of Japan's cocktail culture.

From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026

Stark’s “Chromatic Cascade” is a staple of downtown’s Art’s District.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

The original Blind Date launched on ITV in 1985 and was a staple of Saturday night TV for nearly 20 years, with well-liked Liverpudlian singer and actress Black its host.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

So-called bolt-on deals have become the industry’s staple in recent years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

They are also better prepared than Europeans for subsisting in New Guinea, because Indonesian agriculture already included bananas, sweet potatoes, and some other staple crops of New Guinea agriculture.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

In 2011, the Chinese Embassy issued stapled visas to five karate players from Arunachal Pradesh state for a championship in the Chinese city of Quanghou.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 27, 2023

There are exposed pipes in the bathrooms, wires stapled over doorsills, nails protruding from beams.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

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

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

Birkmaier began the arduous process of inpainting the tiny cracks, the joined places around the perimeter, the repaired tears and the rough puncture marks from the stapling.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2022

He stared at it briefly, then inserted his four-year-old letter in the middle pages, where the stapling in a manuscript is tightest.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger