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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

Burch has long been a staple of the Los Angeles broadcast news scene.

From Los Angeles Times ● 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

Stroads became a staple of American road design in the postwar era, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

It is also clear for Mesoamerica’s staple grain of corn, which spread to become a dominant crop elsewhere in the Americas as well.

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

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

Our catalogue is a couple of mimeographed sheets stapled together at the top comer.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

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

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

Hanging with Char and them in the bathroom is more fun than stapling papers in the school office.

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


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