staple

It was a staple of machine politics in big cities starting in the late 19th century.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026

She said fancy salt is always well received because it’s an elevated version of an everyday staple that most people use.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

When the half-century-old neighborhood staple Pizzamania burned to the ground, the Whittier community reacted with an outpouring of grief.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Beyond the four staple items the first minister has identified, we don't know what food products he has in mind.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

So does too much rice, the one-time staple that in the postfamine era has become a food for the rich in North Korea.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

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

A photocopy of the third page of the ninth edition of The Landry News was stapled to the letter, with the story about the divorce circled.

From "The Landry News" by Andrew Clements

Iona is perched on a table by a windowsill, stapling albums to the ceiling as decor to liven up the record store she runs — not that the place needs much livening-up, considering Iona’s look.

From Salon ● Feb. 28, 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

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

Birkmaier began the arduous process of inpainting the tiny cracks, the joined places around the perimeter, the repaired tears and the rough puncture marks from the stapling.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 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