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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

Panaderia El Cortez worker Esperanza Cancharí said the store had to throw out all of the pan dulce it had made fresh on Friday morning after it went stale during the evacuation.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

If the bread is a little stale, even better.

From Salon • May 25, 2026

A hard copy is available for $50, but don’t bother—its “reference scenario” is already stale.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

It was only slightly stale, and I slept better than I had in ages.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff




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