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Indigenous Andean communities were the first to domesticate the starch-rich crop, turning it into a dietary staple long before potatoes spread around the world.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026

Here’s another school staple: “I have a lot of views on lockers, an enormous number of opinions on lockers,” Ms. Moskowitz says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

But the new push of brand extensions is aimed at ensuring the game remains a cultural staple for future generations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

Top among them are the United States, where Americans on both coasts enjoy the cocktail hour staple -- but whose interior has yet to be seduced by the spritz.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

Kimril was easy to grow, nourishing though nearly flavorless, and was now the staple of their boring diet.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

And the menu itself was a sad stapled printout — this place should obviously have brown-leather-bound menus.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2024

He showed me the receipt stapled to one of the bags, because sometimes with numbers it was hard to understand what Wei was saying.

From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff

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

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

“You might think about getting yourself another copy of your mother’s medical record and stapling it with all the pages in order to keep it all straight,” I said.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot