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stapler

[stey-pler] / ˈsteɪ plər /
NOUN
machine for fastening
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Elsewhere in the warehouse, an authenticator uses a device smaller than a stapler to scan a Louis Vuitton tote to help determine whether the leather, stitching and branding are authentic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026

Jim, on “The Office,” sticks Dwight’s stapler in Jell-O; Kenneth, on “30 Rock,” insists that he has to marry an envelope before he licks it.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2023

And hey, is that Stephen Root, the stapler nerd from “Office Space,” playing a leather-daddy biker?

From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2023

Akbar and Shelley hear this separately and see the error in their ways, mending their children's relationship with all the delicacy of closing an open heart surgery incision with an industrial stapler.

From Salon • Feb. 2, 2023

I make him go to the car first, and then I buy him an ergonomic stapler because I think he should have one.

From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King