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a tiny metal staple that's spent a century just quietly keeping civilization's paperwork together
means A staple is either a small bent piece of metal driven through paper or material to fasten it, or a basic, essential item that's always kept in regular supply.
from From Old English 'stapol,' meaning a post or pillar — a sturdy upright thing fixed in place. That root branched two ways: into the small U-shaped fastener (a little metal post bent to grip) and, via the related sense of an established trading post or market town, into the idea of a 'staple' commodity — a fixed, reliable good a place was known for. So whether it's pinning your paperwork or stocking your pantry, a staple has always been about something firmly, dependably set.
- presidential gift
- Early U.S. staplers came handcrafted for King Louis XV's court
- surgical cousin
- Surgeons close wounds with staples faster than stitches
- jam champion
- Most paper jams trace to one stubborn staple
- staple food
- Same word means the thing you eat most
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