staple
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My latest target is instant ramen, which remains a beloved pantry staple.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
Marc Guehi: A staple of the England backline at major tournaments.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
But for several weeks, queuing for petrol has become a staple of life during the dragging Ukraine conflict, causing impatience at petrol stations.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
Rice and beans are as much a staple as back home, and migrants say they encounter less prejudice than relatives in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
The stromboli is a staple in Pennsylvania cuisine, essentially consisting of a pizza folded on itself, a bread, dairy, and meat concoction held together with copious amounts of grease, classic adolescent comfort food.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
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
The same athletes did not compete at the World University Games in another Chinese city, Chengdu, in July because they were given stapled visas.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2023
Mom watches him carefully for a while, her eyes half closed and the same partial smile stapled to her face as a disguise.
From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman
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
Everybody laughs, including Stewart, who continues stapling until the chair seat's ugliness is snugly disguised.
From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2024
Gilbert and Jaime produced their first issue themselves, printing pages and stapling them together by hand.
From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2022
More than a hundred Seattle educators gathered on Labor Day at Judkins Park, stapling and taping signs to wooden pickets in preparation for a potential strike.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 5, 2022
He stared at it briefly, then inserted his four-year-old letter in the middle pages, where the stapling in a manuscript is tightest.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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