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stuff

[stuhf] / stʌf /


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


NOUN
fabric
Synonyms


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That cool camera setup isn’t worth it because viewers don’t care about that kind of stuff, executives say.

From Salon Aug. 20, 2026

“I haven’t made a sale yet, but we’ve got some stuff brewing.”

From MarketWatch Aug. 19, 2026

“A lot of the stuff that came out around the same time the Shakes broke feels very of that time to me,” Eshak says.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

“We’re doing stuff that I didn’t ever think we’d do again in my career,” said Brady Orchard, project director of the Materials and Fuels Complex at the lab, where he has worked for 19 years.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

Our eyes catch, and I remember one time, when he and his ex-girlfriend Cassie were sitting together on the bench near Cassie’s and my lockers while I was packing up my stuff.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

While Scotland's supporters did not manage to free some banned food stuffs, they have blown open the hearts of Bostonians who have embraced the takeover of their city in the last week and a half.

From BBC Jun. 18, 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 cash-strapped Rossellini stuffs free snacks into his pockets.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 29, 2025

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

For a while, Johanna gulps water and stuffs herself with shellfish while I try to coax something into Wiress.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

Their bright orange covers are stuffed with little more than what feels like poly-foam -completely inadequate for the open and unpredictable waters of the English Channel.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

Data centers get stuffed with a lot of hardware, including the Nvidia chips that are used to train and run models and memory chips that store information.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

Matt Johnson’s funny, biting biopic of the future star chef is stuffed with the teen wastrel’s blood and vomit.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 2026

According to Bernie Moreno, Miller once refused to turn over a favorite stuffed animal of the couple’s daughter during a custody exchange.

From Slate Aug. 10, 2026

She carried with her a binder stuffed with papers and riffled through them until she found the one she was looking for.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

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

But for others, it has turned into an opportunity to flex their money-saving muscles — even to the point of stuffing socks and underwear in those holiday baskets.

From MarketWatch Apr. 2, 2026

“She’ll be back soon,” I say, stuffing her Pull-Ups in my backpack.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko




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