staple
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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
The NFL engineered its rise to solve several challenges at once, turning a gym-class staple into a vehicle for youth acquisition and international expansion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
By the first millennium B.C.E., it ranked among the “five grains,” the staple crops recognized in early Chinese texts.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
But it's put a spell on a new generation discovering it online, with some now regarding the film as a cult classic and autumn staple.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
In many areas, they relied on just a single staple, such as wheat, potatoes or rice.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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
The same athletes did not compete at the World University Games in another Chinese city, Chengdu, in July because they were given stapled visas.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2023
As soon as I get a few papers stapled, here comes someone else wanting something.
From "The Skin I'm In" by Sharon G. Flake
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
Everybody laughs, including Stewart, who continues stapling until the chair seat's ugliness is snugly disguised.
From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2024
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
Birkmaier began the arduous process of inpainting the tiny cracks, the joined places around the perimeter, the repaired tears and the rough puncture marks from the stapling.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2022
He’d seen me stapling the cuffs of my jeans to keep them from dragging, and one night he showed me how to properly hem a pair of pants.
From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi
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