staples

Example Sentences

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To meet customers where they are, brands aren’t necessarily doubling down on fiber-bomb staples like Kellogg’s All-Bran cereal, but rather looking to drinks and snacks.

From MarketWatch • May 10, 2026

If oil prices stay high, the costs will eventually spread beyond energy into other staples such as food, clothing and so forth.

From MarketWatch • May 2, 2026

Overall, that volatility has likely turned some investors off entirely, and those that remain are pickier, leading the most volatile staples stocks to trail their more stable peers and take bigger hits from bad news.

From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026

And when it comes to building a menu, they’re leaning into pantry staples with personality from Flamingo Estate’s vinegar made from fuyu and hachiya persimmons to smoked sea-salt flakes from Maldon.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

I took small chapbooks overseas with me, chapbooks bound by staples with covers that were little more than construction paper.

From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez