stuff
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“And then there’s some funny stuff too,” Dan explained, strutting around the store, with a sense of importance.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
Surely some of this is the doldrums of late summer and the lack of sports stuff to yell about.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
My perverse love for lip stuff traces back to when I was 4 and first tried on my grandmother’s Clinique lipstick in Raspberry Glace.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
"You're made of star stuff - everything in your body comes from a star, so you're looking back at family history."
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
It would take two centuries to figure out that it's the living stuff inside cells that makes them the fundamental unit of life.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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
"I wanted to find out who I am through food," says Taiwanese chef Aeles as she stuffs pork into millet dumplings, before wrapping them in two kinds of local leaves.
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2024
He stuffs the rabbit into the sack and rises.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
According to Bernie Moreno, Miller once refused to turn over a favorite stuffed animal of the couple’s daughter during a custody exchange.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
When former taco stand El Ruso opened its flagship in Studio City last month, burritos wrapped in 18-inch Sonoran flour tortillas and stuffed with rib-eye or chile Colorado were priced at $20 each.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
Certain episodes are overlong and overdone, stuffed with one scabrous exploit after another.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
He shared a photo of his stuffed souvenir on social media with the caption, “It followed me home.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
Better than being buried in an anthill with a boa constrictor around your neck and lima beans stuffed in your mouth.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
She describes how Dailey, ever hopeful of being exonerated, stayed fit with the help of an improvised dumbbell made by stuffing a pillowcase with his copious legal paperwork.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Next to that, C.K.’s bit where he says he’s so old that his mother is dead is as soft as taxidermy stuffing.
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026
So he began typing up a summary of the top headlines and stuffing copies in people’s mailboxes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 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
The couch was tattered and stained, with stuffing poking out of the cushions.
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
