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  • adjective comparative form of staid: more staid

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Examples

  • They affect us most powerfully as teenagers, but then most of us move on to sterner, staider stuff.

    The Condescending Review at SF Novelists 2009

  • In an electoral campaign that has electrified the South American nation, last week he surged in the polls to overtake his staider rivals – most notably the former defence minister, Juan Manuel Santos, who had been viewed as the shoo-in heir to Alvaro Uribe, the pro-Washington incumbent who is about to step down.

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  • That was left to what seemed like a slightly staider, more grown-up name on the high street: Zara.

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  • Sensible as always, TFC Financial's Joslin, based in staider Boston, points out that corporate earnings and balance sheets are robust even in the dance of an underperforming and vulnerable economy.

    The Obama Market Is More Carter Than Reagan 2010

  • They affect us most powerfully as teenagers, but then most of us move on to sterner, staider stuff. ...

    The Condescending Review Glenda Larke 2009

  • Darwin, although he visited Australia as a young man, expressed the same sentiment in staider, less antipodean terms: ‘I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars.’

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • Darwin, although he visited Australia as a young man, expressed the same sentiment in staider, less antipodean terms: ‘I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars.’

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • They affect us most powerfully as teenagers, but then most of us move on to sterner, staider stuff. ...

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  • Among the staider set, execs are ditching bulky billfolds for slim card cases.

    Conventional Wisdom 2008

  • Washington, Feb. 8 — John Edwards learned the hard way this week of the perils of grafting the raucous culture of the Internet to the decidedly staider world of a presidential campaign.

    From On High 2007

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