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staple

[stay-puhl] / ˈsteɪ pəl /


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Since then, the holiday has become an L.A. fall staple.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

So the next Thursday at midnight, I hopped the L train to Williamsburg, where Kellogg’s Diner has been a 24/7 Brooklyn staple since 1928.

From The Wall Street Journal ● 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

Chaplins has been a staple in the city centre for 35 years, back when people wore fancy dress on New Year's Eve.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

However, that is not surprising, because modern highland staple crops are plant species that do not leave archaeologically visible residues except under exceptional conditions.

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

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

As soon as I get a few papers stapled, here comes someone else wanting something.

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

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

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

She was stapling some mimeographed sheets of paper together.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger


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