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She also wrote that “Chicken Shop Date” has been her “very own romcom” and also reflected on the show’s journey which has made her a staple on the awards circuit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Byrne says while some ancient Lúghnasadh traditions like making harvest knots have almost disappeared, others like bonfires have remained a staple of our modern autumn celebrations.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
"I'm still in shock. People were calling me because they knew Dolly was a staple in my life."
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Oysters are a staple of brunch menus and seafood buffets across Australia, with local varieties famed for their rich, creamy flavour.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
These are familiar to us precisely because they also spread into climatically similar adjacent areas of Europe, thence to America and Australia, and became some of the staple crops of temperate-zone agriculture around the world.
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
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
She holds up a stapled set of papers that look like a formerly classified, now somewhat declassified CIA document.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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
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
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
She was stapling some mimeographed sheets of paper together.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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