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stuff

[stuhf] / stʌf /


NOUN
any thing, thought, substance, etc.
Synonyms
STRONG
WEAK


NOUN
fabric
Synonyms


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So far, I have saved about $400 because I usually reinvest in new gear or spend it on personal stuff.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 13, 2026

Can it do the stuff that people don’t want to do?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

"It's what's not visible that is our concern - the microplastics, the pharmaceuticals, the agrichemicals, stuff that you can't see," she said.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026

"Everyone was kind of just hiding behind planters and stuff," Carney told The Sun.

From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2026

Experience has taught me that telling her stuff like this just makes it harder for Jonah and me.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

He dutifully stuffs the bills into the slot.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

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

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

He quickly stuffs the money into his breast pocket.

From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz

Chips may be smuggled into the country, or accessed through a loophole that allows Chinese firms to rent out computing power at data centres stuffed with Nvidia chips in a third nation, often Southeast Asian.

From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026

It turned out that millions of dollars’ worth of chips being stuffed into data centers like sardines were running so hot that only liquid cooling systems could prevent them from being fried.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

She said she had seen immigration fine notices, "some worth £40,000, stuffed in a box" on a mini-mart counter.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

There are lots of reasons it is hard to say no to a child whose heart is set on a stuffed animal collection.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

We empty and refill drawers stuffed with loose drill bits and wood screws, batteries, rolls of tape, and twenty-year-old receipts for two-dollar bottles of glue.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

The $99 dish, roasted with herb butter under the skin, comes with crunchy sourdough stuffing infused with foie gras and mashed potatoes whipped with butter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Treasurys and stuffing them into central banks as reserves and a war chest against future currency weakness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

It was improvised, deeply untraditional and exactly the kind of stuffing I wanted to eat again.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

The hackers used a common tactic known as credential stuffing to access the data, which exploits weak and reused passwords.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026

The cornbread stuffing is my favorite, so I try to leave some of it for last.

From "Free Lunch" by Rex Ogle


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