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staple

[stay-puhl] / ˈsteɪ pəl /


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Nearly three and a half years into Sudan's unrelenting war, soaring costs and a nosediving currency have left people like Sawsan Mahmoud struggling to afford even the most basic staple -- bread.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026

The Americans, in turn, claimed to be able to identify the enemy by the distinctive odor of nuoc mam, the fermented-fish condiment that is a staple of Vietnamese cooking.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

The price of bread, a Syrian staple, has increased tenfold.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Burch has long been a staple of the Los Angeles broadcast news scene.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Photographs of Sammy Davis, Jr., and his white wife walking hand in hand along a beach or kissing in public or dancing at a nightclub were a staple.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

Each quarter, 2.5% of Zuckerberg’s stapled Class C shares will be released, requiring eight years for all of these shares to be freely sellable.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

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

They were heavy constructions of plywood, a sanded dowel for backstroke starts, puke-green carpet torn from somebody's basement stapled into the sloping tops for traction, and lane numbers spray-painted in orange on the backs.

From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth

I was literally stapling posters to telephone poles—“playing here on Friday.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

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

Eventually, at Mario’s suggestion, they put out an issue on their own, borrowing money from another brother to print it, folding and stapling the copies themselves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2022

“You might think about getting yourself another copy of your mother’s medical record and stapling it with all the pages in order to keep it all straight,” I said.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot


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