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staid

[stayd] / steɪd /


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They’ve become unusually popular in a staid sector, though.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

It would be hard to find a more L.A. scene than the one playing out downtown in the normally staid Felicitas and Gonzalo Mendez United States Courthouse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

The aim was to expand U.S. influence in Europe, promote ideas suppressed behind the Iron Curtain and, more specifically, expose Soviet culture as staid and doctrinaire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

But he’ll return, as a ghost, to criticize his son, who, admittedly, has grown staid and stale in his life, his marriage and his work, whatever that’s been.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

Inside, we were met by another crowd of supporters, so that the hall seemed more like a raucous protest meeting than a staid court of law.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela




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