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Rice is a dietary staple for more than half of the world's population, but scientists still have much to learn about its nutritional makeup.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

It was a staple of machine politics in big cities starting in the late 19th century.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026

The NFL engineered its rise to solve several challenges at once, turning a gym-class staple into a vehicle for youth acquisition and international expansion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

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

“You want to try using the staple gun?”

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

Instead, they got their visas stapled to a page in their passports.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 27, 2023

I have seen him jump over bushes to make sure someone did not leave the store without a little stapled booklet.

From "A Step from Heaven" by An Na

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

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

Birkmaier began the arduous process of inpainting the tiny cracks, the joined places around the perimeter, the repaired tears and the rough puncture marks from the stapling.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2022

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

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins