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stale

[steyl] / steɪl /




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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

It looks like a large sales miss, but that Street estimate might have been stale.

From Barron's • May 5, 2026

However, the water had been in the cave for weeks and might be stale.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien




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