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This luxury product, believed by those in the industry to melt more slowly than regular blocks, is a staple of Japan's cocktail culture.

From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026

She also wrote that “Chicken Shop Date” has been her “very own romcom” and also reflected on the show’s journey which has made her a staple on the awards circuit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 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

Why only a handful of maize cobs in the whole site, when maize, at least for the elite, was a staple food?

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

“Relationships were relentlessly stapled out of cardboard and then wrapped in cellophane with professional-looking bows,” Hermetz wrote.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2023

Clearly, much has changed in my thinking about the criminal justice system since I passed that bright orange poster stapled to a telephone pole ten years ago.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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

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

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

He stared at it briefly, then inserted his four-year-old letter in the middle pages, where the stapling in a manuscript is tightest.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger