staple
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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
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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
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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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