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Dracula comes from Central Europe by way of the Irish novelist Bram Stoker; the werewolf is a staple of French and German folk tales.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Burch has long been a staple of the Los Angeles broadcast news scene.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

It’s no secret there’s big business in scaring people: Horror movies are a box office staple, often costing the least to produce and resulting in the biggest profits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

But like every staple in modern life, spoiler anxiety didn’t turn ubiquitous overnight, even if it might seem that way.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

Photographs of Sammy Davis, Jr., and his white wife walking hand in hand along a beach or kissing in public or dancing at a nightclub were a staple.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

Each quarter, 2.5% of Zuckerberg’s stapled Class C shares will be released, requiring eight years for all of these shares to be freely sellable.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

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

When everyone was assembled, he handed you an e-mail he’d printed out, which is stapled below.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon

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

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

Hanging with Char and them in the bathroom is more fun than stapling papers in the school office.

From "The Skin I'm In" by Sharon G. Flake