staple
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Since then, the holiday has become an L.A. fall staple.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
So the next Thursday at midnight, I hopped the L train to Williamsburg, where Kellogg’s Diner has been a 24/7 Brooklyn staple since 1928.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 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
"This is definitely going to be a staple," he added.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
The first staple sends shivers over my body, and I’m smiling like a maniac because it’s just cool to blast a staple into wood with a power tool.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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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
A woman who works in the records office hands us three pages stapled together.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2025
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
Not long after that I found a paper bag in the attic stapled at the top.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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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
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
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
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