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stuff

[stuhf] / stʌf /


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


NOUN
fabric
Synonyms


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"We've gone her whole life trying to tell her that she can't do stuff, and she's just taken on that mantle."

From BBC Sep. 21, 2026

I think all that stuff is cool, don’t get me wrong.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 21, 2026

Superagent and WME Group executive chairman Ari Emanuel’s lust for upside is the stuff of legend.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 19, 2026

But there are always anomalies in even would-be wave years, and voters might think the Senate candidate is his brother is the stuff from which anomalies are made.

From Slate Sep. 19, 2026

I take out my laptop, not because I’m excited to do my school stuff but because I don’t want to think about Grandma and my mom’s relationship anymore.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

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

"What with Covid hitting, VAT on food stuffs, the cost of food rising, we've got to address the situation of dine and dashes," he said.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2025

Avilés takes a story about death and stuffs it with life.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 7, 2024

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 yanks up my laundry bag and, at the last minute, scoops up the diary and stuffs it inside.

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez

Charlene remembered her nephew as a source of happiness in her home, a cheerful presence who once used his allowance to buy his mother a stuffed unicorn.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 18, 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

I stuffed one in my backpack on the way out in Phoenix on Monday and didn’t have to grab an overpriced soda at the hotel.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

If you have somehow escaped the chicken bake’s orbit, imagine a long, golden-brown bread roll stuffed with chicken, bacon and a deeply creamy combination of Caesar dressing, mozzarella and Parmesan.

From Salon Sep. 8, 2026

I tried to focus, but the note stuffed into my backpack kept snagging my attention.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

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

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

Grabbing their supplies and stuffing them into Otto’s backpack, they darted to where they’d laid their bikes in the street.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles




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