staple
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For example, you’ll find MooNie the Magnif’Cent, a fair staple who mixes clowning, stunts and comedy, all without speaking.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
Footballers have also become a regular staple in fashion weeks.
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026
Inside the convenience store, patrons chatted cheerfully as they waited for the shrimp fried rice and fish strips that make Food N’ Geaux a neighborhood staple.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
Apple transformed the music market with the iPod and iTunes, made the smartphone a mass-market staple with the iPhone, and took tablets mainstream with the iPad.
From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026
Blackberry sniffed his way round to the wire door and sat up, nosing over the frame, the hasp and the staple.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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