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staple

[stey-puhl] / ˈsteɪ pəl /


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It has become a staple of LGBTQ+ culture and has been praised for its portrayal of the distinct style of British drag.

From BBC Sep. 9, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 1, 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

Plants that are a staple of English gardens—water-loving hydrangeas, rhododendrons, azaleas—will be harder and harder to maintain in southern England and become less common, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

Around 1200 B.C., toward the end of the Jomon period, a few grains of rice, barley, foxtail millet, and broomcorn millet, the staple cereals of East Asia, began to appear.

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

Now it has emerged that other patients who had their rectum stapled are also being written to.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2023

Inside were pages of notes with photos stapled alongside.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer

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

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

“I just remember playing there and just, like, stapling random things and sewing random fabrics,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 9, 2021

After all that designing, measuring, cutting, sewing, pinning, stapling, gluing, and Velcro-ing?

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins




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