stuff
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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
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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
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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
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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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