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A school staple gets revisited: Millions of students had to read the coming-of-age wilderness survival novel Hatchet in English class.

From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2026

Nearly three and a half years into Sudan's unrelenting war, soaring costs and a nosediving currency have left people like Sawsan Mahmoud struggling to afford even the most basic staple -- bread.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026

Rapper Nicki Minaj has become a staple on the trail, and the president’s old friend Mike Tyson is often with him.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026

Dracula comes from Central Europe by way of the Irish novelist Bram Stoker; the werewolf is a staple of French and German folk tales.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

I gathered this had to do with fufu, the food staple, not yet knowing Kikongo is a language that is not exactly spoken but sung.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

The 23-year-old made a barf bucket out of a shower panel and wooden rings, which she stapled together and painted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Each quarter, 2.5% of Zuckerberg’s stapled Class C shares will be released, requiring eight years for all of these shares to be freely sellable.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 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

It says that somewhere in the six stapled pages.

From "The Misfits" by James Howe

The shares will be gradually released from stapling over a period of eight years according to a preset schedule.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 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

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

He’d seen me stapling the cuffs of my jeans to keep them from dragging, and one night he showed me how to properly hem a pair of pants.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi