staple
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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
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
By the first millennium B.C.E., it ranked among the “five grains,” the staple crops recognized in early Chinese texts.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
Stark’s “Chromatic Cascade” is a staple of downtown’s Art’s District.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Sometimes I stop to pull out a bent one and neatly stack the pages again to staple them just right.
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
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
Her business card was stapled to the Rolodex card.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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
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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