stale
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Every profession — finance and media and politics and insurance and real estate — has good eggs, bad eggs and stale eggs.
From MarketWatch • May 29, 2026
Things are looking a little stale this year.
From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026
If the bread is a little stale, even better.
From Salon • May 25, 2026
"The squad had gone a bit stale - not to have a pop at the guys before!"
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026
Middlings, warm water, apple parings, meat gravy, carrot scrapings, meat scraps, stale hominy, and the wrapper off a package of cheese.
From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White
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