staple
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The exhibit has a set of Staple Singers stage wear—the three sisters’ striking matching dresses and “Pops” Staples’s ice-cream suit and iconic guitar.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 20, 2025
As part of The Staple Singers, she helped provide the soundtrack for the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, as well as the long Black Freedom Struggle.
From Salon • Jun. 17, 2025
Staple foods like wheat flour and breakfast cereals are regularly fortified to ensure that we consume enough iron each day to stave off this important nutritional shortfall.
From Science Daily • Nov. 15, 2023
Det Supt Rob Kirby said officers were trying to find a man seen in the area at the time and is thought to have made off on a bicycle towards Staple Tye.
From BBC • Aug. 22, 2023
Staple, stā′pl, n. a settled mart or market: the principal production or industry of a district or country: the principal element: the thread of textile fabrics: unmanufactured material.—adj. established in commerce: regularly produced for market.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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