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Examples
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"Staleness" is the great enemy of players who play long seasons.
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"Staleness" is purely a mental ailment, and the confident assurance of would-be doctors that its attacks are seldom fatal doesn't help the sufferer at the time.
Kent Knowles: Quahaug Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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Staleness passed away, the old-time energy returned, power surged back, zest for living was renewed.
The Power of Positive Thinking Norman Vincent Peale 1980
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Staleness and rancidity are likely to follow as summer weather approaches.
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Staleness is a mental fatigue due often to worry or too close attention to tennis, and not enough variety of thought.
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Staleness is the breeding ground for all sorts of social diseases which most people attribute to quite other causes.
Over the Fireside with Silent Friends Richard King 1913
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Beds and bad Chear; for we were not so inquisitive about the Inn as the Inn-keeper; and, provided our Landlord's Principles were sound, did not take any Notice of the Staleness of his Provisions.
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Inn-keeper; and, provided our Landlord's Principles were sound, did not take any Notice of the Staleness of his Provisions.
The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695
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Staleness will kill your social networking program or campaign.
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Staleness has two sources: third-party updates to the database, and updates performed by JPA applications running on other servers in the cluster.
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