staple
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Wind & Sea soon became an Orange County staple, serving seafood and its self-proclaimed “best mai tai in the world” on Dana Point Harbor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
In fact, the process far predates the modern primary and was long a staple of how parties chose candidates.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
The gymslip - staple no-frills sportswear for girls across much of the 20th century - was even invented at the college by Osterberg's superintendent Mary Tait.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
My latest target is instant ramen, which remains a beloved pantry staple.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
I hammer the last staple down over the wire and we sit back, wiping sweat from our faces.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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
There was no immediate comment from Beijing but China has insisted the decision to issue stapled visas does not undermine its position on the disputed territory.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 27, 2023
Knees knocking like a skeleton on Halloween, embarrassment bleaching my black cheeks red, eyes stapled to the page in front of me.
From "Bronx Masquerade" by Nikki Grimes
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
Gilbert and Jaime produced their first issue themselves, printing pages and stapling them together by hand.
From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 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
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