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staple

[stay-puhl] / ˈsteɪ pəl /


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Repeats of the series have been a staple of broadcast, cable and, more recently, Netflix, which streams the original series and a reboot that launched in September.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

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

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

Her tirade was a staple of the yard.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

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

Ladd Devine stapled the two notes and the two envelopes they had come in together, slipped them into a manila folder, and filed them under E for “El” in his personal correspondence file.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

The shares will be gradually released from stapling over a period of eight years according to a preset schedule.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

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

I nervously glanced at Mrs. Maxy and luckily she was busy stapling all the presidents’ heads on a bulletin board.

From "Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key" by Jack Gantos


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