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stuff

[stuhf] / stʌf /


NOUN
any thing, thought, substance, etc.
Synonyms
STRONG
WEAK


NOUN
fabric
Synonyms


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Evan Jones gave it a go early on from lane one - touching the wall a fraction in front of his Scotland team-mate after the fly - but then Scott uncorked the good stuff.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

For the kitchen, just having all the little stuff you need there.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

"And a lot of this stuff that we've looked at is just very, very substandard."

From Barron's Jul. 23, 2026

This was the ninth year for the annual World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, and it has emerged as the premier occasion for China to strut its stuff in AI.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

“Who decides what stuff matters? College admissions people? Teachers? Dad?”

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

Top holdings include Thai Foods Group, which distributes poultry and other food stuffs in Thailand, and Brazilian energy companies Petroreconcavo and Petrobras.

From Barron's Apr. 12, 2026

Avilés takes a story about death and stuffs it with life.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 7, 2024

Later, he lies down and the man in the rabbit head, from whom he has taken a carrot, blows up black balloons and stuffs them in Smko’s clothing so they look like bulging tumors.

From New York Times Mar. 7, 2024

"I wanted to find out who I am through food," says Taiwanese chef Aeles as she stuffs pork into millet dumplings, before wrapping them in two kinds of local leaves.

From BBC Jan. 6, 2024

He balls up the Subway wrapper and stuffs it in the plastic bag it came in.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

Certain episodes are overlong and overdone, stuffed with one scabrous exploit after another.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

We could also call Wild Bill’s Western Store a winner, as Front Office Sports reported the taxidermy shop sold out of stuffed raccoons thanks to high demand following Haaland’s viral post.

From MarketWatch Jul. 17, 2026

It involves a choreographed routine involving elements of gymnastics and traditional dressage performed while using a “hobby horse” — a stuffed horse head on a stick.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 16, 2026

Cubes of delicately folded fettuccine, stuffed shells, slabs of lasagna.

From Salon Jul. 11, 2026

When he had stuffed it under the couch, he had thought it would disappear forever.

From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry

Next to that, C.K.’s bit where he says he’s so old that his mother is dead is as soft as taxidermy stuffing.

From Salon Jul. 3, 2026

Users were targeted by a so-called "credential stuffing" attack in which hackers used passwords exposed in previous breaches to access 23andMe accounts for which people had used similar credentials.

From BBC May 28, 2026

The same sort of silliness repeated a few years ago when companies started stuffing references to cryptocurrency into their corporate names.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 21, 2026

So he began typing up a summary of the top headlines and stuffing copies in people’s mailboxes.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 5, 2026

At the top, I’m stuffing as hard as I can, while yelling, “Stop! Stop! Stop!”

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman




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