stale
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When a local bakery near the square opens up, the owner distributes stale bread among the crowd.
From BBC • May 18, 2026
It looks like a large sales miss, but that Street estimate might have been stale.
From Barron's • May 5, 2026
Even couples who make it well into a marriage contend with all the perils born from romance gone stale, including the functional discord clumsily realized in the sight-gag metaphor of “The Miniature Wife.”
From Salon • Apr. 23, 2026
The sky was the color of cotton candy, but the stale kind that’s been hardening in a plastic bag for days after the fair.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
She’d take anything: stale bread crusts, cabbage leaves, even an apple or a bun sometimes, but I think she was always hoping for potatoes—as Mutti said, they were her real passion.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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