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staple

[stey-puhl] / ˈsteɪ pəl /


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But the new push of brand extensions is aimed at ensuring the game remains a cultural staple for future generations.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 2026

Top among them are the United States, where Americans on both coasts enjoy the cocktail hour staple -- but whose interior has yet to be seduced by the spritz.

From Barron's Jul. 29, 2026

Contestants were set the task of transforming a staple ingredient into a dish "fit for a duchess", although the duchess herself urged her fellow judges to “call me Meghan”.

From BBC Jul. 26, 2026

In fact, the process far predates the modern primary and was long a staple of how parties chose candidates.

From Slate Jul. 24, 2026

Whenever one of the rabbits inside stood up and rested its forepaws on the upper part of the wire, the door pivoted lightly on the axis of the staple and the lower hinge.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

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

He was so tired, his brain felt like someone had gone in and stapled it to his skull in a dozen places.

From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner

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

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




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