staple
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Several Asheville breweries, a staple of the neighborhood, are open and thriving again.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
We have seen several LGBTQ+ staple venues have their Meta accounts restricted, blocked, and taken down — with no clear reason why.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Rob Medhurst credits the student staple of spaghetti bolognese as being his springboard onto greater dishes.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Rice is a dietary staple for more than half of the world's population, but scientists still have much to learn about its nutritional makeup.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
It appeared that pea soup was to be the menu staple.
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
One problem was that her well-organized husband had stapled many invoices and other documents together.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
In contrast, a running joke about the Donald obsessing about his hair has a fun, if gleefully nasty payoff in an episode involving Trump getting his head surgically stapled to impede his male pattern baldness.
From Salon ● Nov. 10, 2024
“Crypto dot com Arena? Staples Center is so stapled to my brain that I can’t call it anything else.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2024
A sign stapled on a tree outside the building warned passersby to keep dogs out of the grass.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 22, 2023
When everyone was assembled, he handed you an e-mail he’d printed out, which is stapled below.
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
I was literally stapling posters to telephone poles—“playing here on Friday.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Iona is perched on a table by a windowsill, stapling albums to the ceiling as decor to liven up the record store she runs — not that the place needs much livening-up, considering Iona’s look.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2026
Through a technique known as peptide stapling, the research team modified the B-chain of relaxin-3, replacing blocks of amino acids within them with artificial ones that introduce 'chemical bridges' between them.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 20, 2024
Birkmaier began the arduous process of inpainting the tiny cracks, the joined places around the perimeter, the repaired tears and the rough puncture marks from the stapling.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2022
He’d seen me stapling the cuffs of my jeans to keep them from dragging, and one night he showed me how to properly hem a pair of pants.
From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi
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