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staple

[stay-puhl] / ˈsteɪ pəl /


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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

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

Several Asheville breweries, a staple of the neighborhood, are open and thriving again.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

We have seen several LGBTQ+ staple venues have their Meta accounts restricted, blocked, and taken down — with no clear reason why.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 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

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

The same athletes did not compete at the World University Games in another Chinese city, Chengdu, in July because they were given stapled visas.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2023

Anh had stapled a bunch of sheets about him together, including a bunch of his pictures.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai

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

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

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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