stationery
noun
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The Internet is awash with mnemonics (“something (such as a word, a sentence, or a song) that helps people remember something“) designed to assist those who have trouble distinguishing between two similar words. A fair share of these turn out to be for the words stationery and stationary. The most commonly suggested method is to remember that you buy papER at a stationERy store. If this trick does not work for you, then perhaps it will help to remember that a stationery store is one that is run by a stationer. This word was originally applied to a bookseller, but by the middle of the 17th century it began to be used for a person who sells papers, pens, and office goods.
Examples of stationery in a Sentence
Javier Hasse, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
Depending on the style of tracer paper, it typically can be written on with different types of drawing media, including markers, ink pens and other sketching stationery that easily bleeds.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 27 June 2025
Spirits of Texas: Liquor store with unique Texas gifts, books, and stationery.
—Jill Robbins, Southern Living, 11 June 2025
That stationery is now subject to the recent slew of sky-high tariffs.
—Jo Ling Kent, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2025
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“Stationery.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stationery. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.
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