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staple

[stay-puhl] / ˈsteɪ pəl /


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Rapper Nicki Minaj has become a staple on the trail, and the president’s old friend Mike Tyson is often with him.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026

The price of bread, a Syrian staple, has increased tenfold.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Repeats of the series have been a staple of broadcast, cable and, more recently, Netflix, which streams the original series and a reboot that launched in September.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

But like every staple in modern life, spoiler anxiety didn’t turn ubiquitous overnight, even if it might seem that way.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

“Now, we staple on the coated wire and we’re done,” Mr. Larkin says, sitting back on his heels.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

The 23-year-old made a barf bucket out of a shower panel and wooden rings, which she stapled together and painted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Each quarter, 2.5% of Zuckerberg’s stapled Class C shares will be released, requiring eight years for all of these shares to be freely sellable.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 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

Social niceties done with, he ran his forefinger down the sheet of paper stapled to the inside-left of the folder.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman

The shares will be gradually released from stapling over a period of eight years according to a preset schedule.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

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

Eventually, at Mario’s suggestion, they put out an issue on their own, borrowing money from another brother to print it, folding and stapling the copies themselves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 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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