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stuff

[stuhf] / stʌf /


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


NOUN
fabric
Synonyms


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You burn out all the old stuff, and it makes way for new growth that's more secure from the beginning.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

You don't need to buy them - you can use towels or stuff socks into a pair of tights.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

I’m 32 years old and feel like I should know how to do this stuff by now.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

I love an old-school, no frills theater that shows cool stuff.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

If I ever saw her again, I think I’d start saying all kinds of stuff and probably wouldn’t be able to stop.

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott

He dutifully stuffs the bills into the slot.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

The Cowboys didn’t get a green dot in free agency, which remains a major hole, and Rodriguez does it all and stuffs the stat sheet.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026

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

The desperation caused by precious food stuffs going to waste in warm fridges and freezers was exacerbated by citizens going for days with no air-conditioning or ceiling fans in the island's stifling heat.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2024

She stuffs the “fossil” in through the mail slot.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

I still have one of those stuffed animals, a dog named Bou my dad bought me just a few years before he suddenly died when I was a child.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

Nearby, a young girl and three boys played among stuffed toys recently disinfected with chlorine.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

She told us she had seen immigration fine notices, "some worth £40,000, stuffed in a box" on a mini-mart counter.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

Inside, photographs of the stuffed figures fill the pages, accompanied by written musings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

We empty and refill drawers stuffed with loose drill bits and wood screws, batteries, rolls of tape, and twenty-year-old receipts for two-dollar bottles of glue.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

After a few jaw-clenching, squinty-eyed minutes—and after stuffing the CrossWave so hard it practically tore off my trunks—I eased off the throttle, exhausted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Over here on the savory side, I’m equally evangelical about freeing stuffing from Thanksgiving.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

She describes how Dailey, ever hopeful of being exonerated, stayed fit with the help of an improvised dumbbell made by stuffing a pillowcase with his copious legal paperwork.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

The hackers used a common tactic known as credential stuffing to access the data, which exploits weak and reused passwords.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026

We chowed down on our nachos, stuffing ourselves full.

From "Keep It Together, Keiko Carter" by Debbi Michiko Florence


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