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staple

[stey-puhl] / ˈsteɪ pəl /


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Simon soon picks up a handheld CRT device to help with sneaking - a clever updated version of another staple of the Silent Hill series: the crackling radio.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

We have seen several LGBTQ+ staple venues have their Meta accounts restricted, blocked, and taken down — with no clear reason why.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Rice is a dietary staple for more than half of the world's population, but scientists still have much to learn about its nutritional makeup.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

The NFL engineered its rise to solve several challenges at once, turning a gym-class staple into a vehicle for youth acquisition and international expansion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

The first staple sends shivers over my body, and I’m smiling like a maniac because it’s just cool to blast a staple into wood with a power tool.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

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

A sign stapled on a tree outside the building warned passersby to keep dogs out of the grass.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 22, 2023

He opened it and found a letter on which some attachment had been stapled.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

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

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

After all that designing, measuring, cutting, sewing, pinning, stapling, gluing, and Velcro-ing?

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins




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