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Chipotle shares, meanwhile, have fallen 11.7% over that period, amid a bigger fast-casual slump and malaise over pricier “slop bowls” that have become a staple in that segment of the restaurant industry.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

Falafel and hummus, with varying recipes and consistencies, flow freely across countries of several faiths and backgrounds, while pizza bagels are a frozen food staple and challah French toast is seemingly everywhere.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Ube was a staple of Philippine gardens as long as 5,000 years ago, boiled and eaten by families as a substitute to rice when their provisions ran out.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

Elephant meat is common in some wildlife-rich communities, particularly when meat from legal hunts is distributed locally, but it is not an everyday staple.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Another staple of 1990s crime fighting—and of the evening news—was the gun buyback.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

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

As soon as I get a few papers stapled, here comes someone else wanting something.

From "The Skin I'm In" by Sharon G. Flake

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

Gilbert and Jaime produced their first issue themselves, printing pages and stapling them together by hand.

From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2022

He’d seen me stapling the cuffs of my jeans to keep them from dragging, and one night he showed me how to properly hem a pair of pants.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi