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stapler

[stey-pler] / ˈsteɪ plər /
NOUN
machine for fastening
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Elsewhere in the warehouse, an authenticator uses a device smaller than a stapler to scan a Louis Vuitton tote to help determine whether the leather, stitching and branding are authentic.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 21, 2026

Jim, on “The Office,” sticks Dwight’s stapler in Jell-O; Kenneth, on “30 Rock,” insists that he has to marry an envelope before he licks it.

From Seattle Times Nov. 22, 2023

Akbar and Shelley hear this separately and see the error in their ways, mending their children's relationship with all the delicacy of closing an open heart surgery incision with an industrial stapler.

From Salon Feb. 2, 2023

Or they’ll explain that they couldn’t find the box of printer paper they bought last month, or their hammer or stapler, so they bought another one.

From Washington Post Mar. 8, 2022

I make him go to the car first, and then I buy him an ergonomic stapler because I think he should have one.

From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King




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