staple

When the half-century-old neighborhood staple Pizzamania burned to the ground, the Whittier community reacted with an outpouring of grief.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Beyond the four staple items the first minister has identified, we don't know what food products he has in mind.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

"I'm still in shock. People were calling me because they knew Dolly was a staple in my life."

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Oysters are a staple of brunch menus and seafood buffets across Australia, with local varieties famed for their rich, creamy flavour.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

I led my dogs to it Holding onto their collars with one hand, I worked a rusty barbed wire backwards and forwards against a staple until it broke.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls

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

“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

Iona is perched on a table by a windowsill, stapling albums to the ceiling as decor to liven up the record store she runs — not that the place needs much livening-up, considering Iona’s look.

From Salon ● Feb. 28, 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

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

Around the edges of the canvas you can see slight dimples made by the thieves when stapling their cutout canvas over a new stretcher bar.

From New York Times ● May 20, 2022

After all that designing, measuring, cutting, sewing, pinning, stapling, gluing, and Velcro-ing?

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins