stuff
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Here’s someone who’ll pay for your driver when you’re in Ukraine, find a videographer to film you, pay for security, all that kind of stuff.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
“The minute I moved there, the quality of the stuff and also the range of characters that I was being offered was so different from what I’d been doing for almost 10 years as Scully.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Every time we shoot more stuff up into space, we risk it hitting something else, as in a giant game of billiards.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
Rather than fear an AI-cyber apocalypse in the meantime, Prof Woodward says, "it's a case of 'keep calm and fix stuff'".
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
But she’s not great about sticking with stuff that’s hard or boring.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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
Malak heaves and leaks tears, stuffs a tattered tissue into the corners of her eyes.
From BBC ● May 7, 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
Sonny stuffs an entire cookie in his mouth.
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
If your safe portfolio allocation is stuffed with long-duration Treasurys, you own a leveraged bet on falling rates.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
If your safe allocation is stuffed with long-duration Treasurys, you own a leveraged bet on falling rates.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
The stuffed creature was one of many purchases Haaland made during his team’s stay in Dallas for its round of 32 game against Ivory Coast on June 30.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Burgers are the obvious choice, but smoked meatloaf stuffed with cheese is mostly hands-off and packs a hell of a punch.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
On the afternoon of the first blast from Mount St. Helens, Johnston stood in a clearing near the forest with his hands stuffed in his pockets.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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
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
Justice Department, Curtis said he had learned of lax security and potential ballot stuffing in 2024, the year of the attempted recall against Crye.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026
“Okay,” I said, stuffing the mermaid into the neck of my shirt.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
