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- noun Plural form of
stuff . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
stuff .
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Examples
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Other than that I think that having at least a month worth of dried food stuffs is never a bad idea and making food out of real ingredients such as flour and vegetables is probably much better for your health than getting frozen pizza five nights a week.
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Other than that I think that having at least a month worth of dried food stuffs is never a bad idea and making food out of real ingredients such as flour and vegetables is probably much better for your health than getting frozen pizza five nights a week.
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So I fared forth and bought a fine and spacious mansion, whither she removed all the wealth she owned and what riches I had gained in stuffs and costly rarities.
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When my baggage shall come, I will pay them in stuffs or in gold and silver, as they will.
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The energy contained in the food-stuffs is made available by a biological oxidation
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Many of the soldiers were absolutely without funds, but these two civilians extended them the assistance so sorely needed out of their own pockets, purchasing food-stuffs from the canteen, which they distributed together with other articles which were in urgent request, with every liberality.
Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot
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The old wear plain stuffs and pale or dull colours.
Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan b. 974? Murasaki Shikibu Izumi Shikibu 1920
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Another trouble that results from this is, that the Indians, who are naturally prone to idleness, easily earn enough with which to pay the tribute and buy stuffs from the Chinese with which to clothe themselves, and so do not manufacture these.
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On this account a large quantity of silk and cotton stuffs is manufactured; and for the same reason the Irish manufacture of silk and wool, called tabinet, or poplin, is in high estimation.
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They have beside ye town hall a hall distinct wch is the scaleing hall where their stuffs are all measured, and if they hold their breadths and Lengths they are scaled, but if they are deffective there is a fine Layd on ye owner and a private marke on ye stuff wch shews its defficiency.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888
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