Definitions
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- verb transitive to remove
staples from.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb take the staples off
Etymologies
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Examples
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It did terrify me having to unstaple the issue to scan it though!
PCW – Personal Computer World Magazine – 30 Years Old « Official Harry Harrison News Blog 2008
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Like other unstaple commodities, the value of which depends upon their scarcity or abundance, it never has assumed a constant and standing value, but its price has generally been deranged by speculation and monopoly.
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"He had, in fact, gone out of his way to staple things incorrectly just so he could prevail on his teacher to unstaple them, giving him another glimpse of the blood-chilling mandibles in action." by Neal Stephenson. meme howto
Mike's Planet 2008
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Only one more set of legal briefs to unstaple, copy, and restaple, and then I could go home, trade this straitjacket and stockings for a T-shirt and jeans, and make it to Logan’s before practice.
Shade Jeri Smith-Ready 2010
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Only one more set of legal briefs to unstaple, copy, and restaple, and then I could go home, trade this straitjacket and stockings for a T-shirt and jeans, and make it to Logan’s before practice.
Shade Jeri Smith-Ready 2010
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