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stapler

[stay-pler] / ˈsteɪ plər /
NOUN
machine for fastening
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Elsewhere in the warehouse, an authenticator uses a device smaller than a stapler to scan a Louis Vuitton tote to help determine whether the leather, stitching and branding are authentic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026

Jim, on “The Office,” sticks Dwight’s stapler in Jell-O; Kenneth, on “30 Rock,” insists that he has to marry an envelope before he licks it.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023

Akbar and Shelley hear this separately and see the error in their ways, mending their children's relationship with all the delicacy of closing an open heart surgery incision with an industrial stapler.

From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2023

Instead of situating its 256-room hotel and 100,000-square-foot hospital side by side, as might be the case on some campuses, Legacy sandwiches the two entities into a single 680-foot high-rise the shape of a stapler.

From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2020

In fact, there was a layer of dust on the lamp, the Rolodex, and the stapler.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen


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