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Etymologies
- Middle English, settled, clear (used of beer or wine), probably from Old French estale, slack, settled, clear, from estaler, to come to a standstill, halt, from estal, standing place, stand, of Germanic origin; see stel- in Indo-European roots.Middle English stalen, possibly of Low German origin; akin to Middle Low German stallen.
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“I'm not the biggest Tim Burton fan, a lot like Terry Gilliam, I feel he sometimes gets too caught up creating the aesthetics and some of his films border on that gothic style which I feel has staled really badly.”
“Hillary is living her millionaire life style, while voters like you sit staled in time, concentrating on the and. buts and what if ….”
“God knows I've been there often enough myself, when passion has staled to moody discontent, sullen exchanges wax into recrimination, the errant wife makes odious comparisons to the lover's disadvantage - and that's the moment when Lothario, cut to the quick, speaks his mind of the cuckolded husband.”
“Case staled at the printed logo and its Japanese translation.”
“Even the air seemed to have staled within the streams of weak light.”
“The reason why cans of grocery coffee like Maxwell House taste so bad is that the coffee is pre-staled before canning.”
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“Her store of memories, rummaged through too often, had staled now, lost their incantatory power to bring his presence back.”
“We'll definitely be following this project very closely, although Reeves is still staled to start production on The Invisible Woman before moving to this.”
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“It is mildly decadent and seriously delicious and it is a known fact across all lands or at least diners in the tri-state area that when slightly staled, makes the most amazing French toast there could be.”
“Meanwhile, the five abode each in his compartment of the cabinet without eating or drinking three whole days, during which time they held their water until at last the carpenter could retain his no longer; so he staled on the”
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