stuff
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“Nobody had called him out on that stuff before,” she added.
From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026
Another resident, Jason, said: "It all happened very quickly. We just packed our stuff up and came here."
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
“When the shape’s good, you’re confident in your stuff over the zone,” Skubal said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026
They didn’t buy stuff on credit; they waited until they could afford it.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026
In the little dish I keep on my desk that holds stuff I like to keep handy like paper clips, bobby pins, and my favorite passion fruit–watermelon lip moisturizer.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
Top holdings include Thai Foods Group, which distributes poultry and other food stuffs in Thailand, and Brazilian energy companies Petroreconcavo and Petrobras.
From Barron's ● Apr. 12, 2026
The cash-strapped Rossellini stuffs free snacks into his pockets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2025
In turn, this has meant a shortage of US dollars, making it harder and more costly for the country to import petrol, diesel and food stuffs, leading to shortages and price hikes.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2025
Later, he lies down and the man in the rabbit head, from whom he has taken a carrot, blows up black balloons and stuffs them in Smko’s clothing so they look like bulging tumors.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2024
She takes the green shirt off, rolls it up, and stuffs it into her backpack.
From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi
You may have seen those people at the airport - a pillow stuffed under an arm as they drag their suitcases to check-in.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
Two years to the day of my arrest, I was in Qatar, talking to officials involved in helping mediate my release while dining on stuffed pigeons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Rita remembered that the shorter man had stuffed them inside his coat while he was yelling for the money.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
However, after a one-yard catch by Nacua, the 49ers stuffed Stafford’s sneak attempt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
There was a small fire at the center, and a hammock stuffed with grass hung on the far corner.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
If you’re baking your stuffing, some combination of stock, egg, cream or buttermilk helps pull everything together.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
Users were targeted by a so-called "credential stuffing" attack in which hackers used passwords exposed in previous breaches to access 23andMe accounts for which people had used similar credentials.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
The same sort of silliness repeated a few years ago when companies started stuffing references to cryptocurrency into their corporate names.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
But for others, it has turned into an opportunity to flex their money-saving muscles — even to the point of stuffing socks and underwear in those holiday baskets.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 2, 2026
Tamika’s hands paused in stuffing envelopes as she raised her brows in my direction.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
