stalled

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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

Merrill stapled old rock ‘n roll posters directly to the cedar walls of his “man room” to echo the way music posters are stapled to telephone poles.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 29, 2024

Her business card was stapled to the Rolodex card.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen