as in weights
the main or greater part of something as distinguished from its subordinate parts
reading is the very staple of a person's education
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Recent Examples of staples
Sian Babish, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
Making a debut alongside signature staples are the Bacon Jam Grilled Cheese, Cookie Butter Cloud Latte, Berry Sangria Dunkin’ Refresher, Raspberry Striped Croissant and Ultimate Bacon Jam Breakfast Sandwich.
—Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025
Feeding South Florida Feeding South Florida relies on the generosity of corporations, individual donors, an army of volunteers and, until recently, the federal government to put fresh produce and food staples on the table for the community’s most vulnerable populations.
—Mimi Whitefield, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2025
Known for its sartorial style, the brand ultimately brings forth wardrobe staples and limited-edition pieces made from surplus luxury fabrics.
—Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 28 Oct. 2025
If your cloche didn’t come with anchoring pins, use landscape staples or old tent stakes to hold them in place.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Oct. 2025
Cousins Maine Lobster is fast-casual restaurant with food trucks serving up seafood staples around the country.
—Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 28 Oct. 2025
The page is packed with the brand’s best-selling styles, from the Align leggings to the Everywhere Belt Bag; there are simply too many can’t-miss fall travel staples to keep the best ones all to myself.
—Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 26 Oct. 2025
Also, he did not get used much in motion or through off-ball movement, two staples of Brown's offense.
—Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
Need to find a home for your beauty tools, pantry staples, or extra sweaters?
—Sian Babish, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
Making a debut alongside signature staples are the Bacon Jam Grilled Cheese, Cookie Butter Cloud Latte, Berry Sangria Dunkin’ Refresher, Raspberry Striped Croissant and Ultimate Bacon Jam Breakfast Sandwich.
—Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025
Feeding South Florida Feeding South Florida relies on the generosity of corporations, individual donors, an army of volunteers and, until recently, the federal government to put fresh produce and food staples on the table for the community’s most vulnerable populations.
—Mimi Whitefield, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2025
Known for its sartorial style, the brand ultimately brings forth wardrobe staples and limited-edition pieces made from surplus luxury fabrics.
—Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 28 Oct. 2025
If your cloche didn’t come with anchoring pins, use landscape staples or old tent stakes to hold them in place.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Oct. 2025
Cousins Maine Lobster is fast-casual restaurant with food trucks serving up seafood staples around the country.
—Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 28 Oct. 2025
The page is packed with the brand’s best-selling styles, from the Align leggings to the Everywhere Belt Bag; there are simply too many can’t-miss fall travel staples to keep the best ones all to myself.
—Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 26 Oct. 2025
Also, he did not get used much in motion or through off-ball movement, two staples of Brown's offense.
—Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for staples
Noun
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In real materials, large angles that could create bigger matrix weights also stiffen the input path, reducing motion at the output.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Nov. 2025
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Holding this position, row the weights up to your hips by bending your elbows to a 45-degree angle.—
Leoni Jesner,
Health,
1 Nov. 2025
Verb
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The carry handles each have a magnetic piece that then clips together to form a single bar to grasp.—
Adam Campbell-Schmitt,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
18 Sep. 2025
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For messing up, Martha clips Gabriel’s wings, forcing him to live life as a human, with a new casual wardrobe to match and a taste for fast food.—
Michael Rechtshaffen,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In 2014, British banker Rurik Jutting brutally murdered two Indonesian women and hid one of the bodies in a suitcase in his upscale apartment in J Residence in Wan Chai, a popular nightlife district in Hong Kong.—
Chris Lau,
CNN Money,
31 Oct. 2025
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Teller took to heart the classic Greek playwright Aristophanes’ myth of love — that humans were born as a fusion of two bodies and later separated as punishment from the gods, only to spend their lives looking — and longing — for their other half.—
Samantha Conti,
Footwear News,
31 Oct. 2025
Verb
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This is an adjustable graphics-card brace, and its screw tightens the part that clamps it to the slide.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
21 Oct. 2025
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Here, Lloyd clamps a muzzle — part fetish club, part Bane — over Lucky’s mouth while Pozzo pushes him in a wheelchair (the actor, Michael Patrick Thornton, uses a chair).—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
29 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Moisture helps break up soil cores and promotes turf recovery after aeration.—
Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
22 Oct. 2025
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Redevelopment in city cores will be costly, dangerous and prolonged.—
Shelly Culbertson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Other than Valak appearing in both The Conjuring 2 and The Nun, there’s no apparent link between the two movies — but in The Nun’s sequel, a plot point emerges that ties the movies together.—
Julie Tremaine,
PEOPLE,
27 Oct. 2025
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The book also ties Pennywise’s origins to Derry’s original Native American population in a colonial allegory.—
Andrew McGowan,
Variety,
27 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Chief Theetge was in Denver at that point for an annual national conference of police chiefs.—
Jennifer Edwards Baker,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
30 Oct. 2025
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The restructuring brings in regional chiefs and supervisors normally stationed at the nation's borders to carry out immigration arrests inside the country, a move representing a departure from traditional immigration enforcement structures.—
Adeola Adeosun,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Or are those simply screws Vrabel’s staff will tighten with more time and practice?—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Staples.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/staples. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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