Definitions
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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of a
staple (fastening).
Etymologies
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Examples
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Hill's case rested in part on the testimony of the 15-year-old victim, who required seven or eight staplelike stitches to close his head wound.
Montgomery officer not guilty in baton assault on unarmed teenager Dan Morse 2011
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Hill's case rested in part on the testimony of the 15-year-old victim, who required seven or eight staplelike stitches to close his head wound.
Montgomery officer not guilty in baton assault on unarmed teenager Dan Morse 2011
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Hill's case rested in part on the testimony of the 15-year-old victim, who required seven or eight staplelike stitches to close his head wound.
Montgomery officer not guilty in baton assault on unarmed teenager Dan Morse 2011
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Zipped into bodysuits crenellated with wires and exposed electronics, their headsets gouging deep staplelike grooves into their humanoid flesh, they make a gruesome spectacle of a constantly connected life-form.
The Tyranny of E-mail John Freeman 2009
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