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staple

[stey-puhl] / ˈsteɪ pəl /


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We have seen several LGBTQ+ staple venues have their Meta accounts restricted, blocked, and taken down — with no clear reason why.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 22, 2026

It’s rare for a wine to jump from niche sommelier favorite to mainstream staple, making its way onto everyday neighborhood bar menus.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 21, 2026

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

It was a staple of machine politics in big cities starting in the late 19th century.

From Salon Sep. 15, 2026

They include, notably, sorghum and pearl millet, which became the staple cereals of much of sub-Saharan Africa.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

“Relationships were relentlessly stapled out of cardboard and then wrapped in cellophane with professional-looking bows,” Hermetz wrote.

From Seattle Times Dec. 6, 2023

At first glance, the kitchen was better—it was bigger, at least—though the stove burners were wrapped in aluminum foil and bedsheets had been stapled over the lower cabinets in place of doors.

From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez

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

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

I will be working in the school office, filing papers, stapling letters, that kind of stuff.

From "The Skin I'm In" by Sharon G. Flake




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