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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of staple.

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Examples

  • I'm a bit worried for his hair which I'm reliably informed is stapled ... as in stapled?

    I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here 2006

  • I'm a bit worried for his hair which I'm reliably informed is stapled ... as in stapled?

    48 entries from November 2006 2006

  • I'm a bit worried for his hair which I'm reliably informed is stapled ... as in stapled?

    I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here 2006

  • Lumber used for posts should be pressure-treated and rated for ground contact: The tag stapled to the product's end grain should read "End Use Ground Contact," and somewhere adjacent to that term will be "0.40 pcf," which designates the concentration of preservative used in these products.

    unknown title 2009

  • Lumber used for posts should be pressure-treated and rated for ground contact: The tag stapled to the product's end grain should read "End Use Ground Contact," and somewhere adjacent to that term will be "0.40 pcf," which designates the concentration of preservative used in these products.

    unknown title 2009

  • On another worksheet with a rubric stapled to it, my daughter did not miss anything, but was given the grade of an MP.

    Starbulletin Headlines 2009

  • On another worksheet with a rubric stapled to it, my daughter did not miss anything, but was given the grade of an MP.

    Starbulletin Headlines 2009

  • The main design item here would be T-shirts with the word "Vail" in Japanese stapled to the walls.

    Get Real Denver 2008

  • For the past couple of years, Beijing has been giving these so-called stapled visas to residents of the states of Jammu and Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh, a gesture that indicates China's questioning of India's territorial rights in those regions by not treating their residents as it treats other Indians.

    India, China Set to Resume Military Ties Megha Bahree 2011

  • For the past couple of years, Beijing has been giving these so-called stapled visas to residents of the states of Jammu and Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh, a gesture that indicates China's questioning of India's territorial rights in those regions by not treating their residents as it treats other Indians.

    India, China Set to Resume Military Ties Megha Bahree 2011

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