staple
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"This is definitely going to be a staple," he added.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Chipotle shares, meanwhile, have fallen 11.7% over that period, amid a bigger fast-casual slump and malaise over pricier “slop bowls” that have become a staple in that segment of the restaurant industry.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
Shares of healthcare firms, banks, consumer staple companies, small-caps and blue chips are declining as higher rates and rising costs drag them down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Ube was a staple of Philippine gardens as long as 5,000 years ago, boiled and eaten by families as a substitute to rice when their provisions ran out.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
It appeared that pea soup was to be the menu staple.
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
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
Instead, they got their visas stapled to a page in their passports.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 27, 2023
It says that somewhere in the six stapled pages.
From "The Misfits" by James Howe
I was literally stapling posters to telephone poles—“playing here on Friday.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
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
Eventually, at Mario’s suggestion, they put out an issue on their own, borrowing money from another brother to print it, folding and stapling the copies themselves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2022
I will be working in the school office, filing papers, stapling letters, that kind of stuff.
From "The Skin I'm In" by Sharon G. Flake
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