staple
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The seafood stalwart — a Redondo Beach staple since 1953 — is outfitted to withstand small amounts of water, given its live-seafood tanks.
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
And its “We Have the Meats” campaign, now a long-running staple of its marketing, helped counter an earlier dip in sales.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
James liked our craft project where you had to cut thin strips of paper and staple rings together to make a long chain.
From "Because of Mr. Terupt" by Rob Buyea
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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
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
When everyone was assembled, he handed you an e-mail he’d printed out, which is stapled below.
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
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I was literally stapling posters to telephone poles—“playing here on Friday.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 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
“A surprisingly large amount of time has been used looking for carts to put files on and staples for stapling files together,” Mr. Gunn said in an interview.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 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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