stapled

past tense of staple

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for stapled
Verb
  • Williams tied a career high with four made 3-pointers, and Keon Johnson tied a career high with eight assists.
    C.J. Holmes, New York Daily News, 5 Jan. 2025
  • But the Vikings are just as formidable — top 10 in points for and against and tied for the most takeaways in football.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The net simply gets clipped onto the detector as needed.
    Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 30 Dec. 2024
  • The car moved across multiple lanes, clipped another vehicle, struck the outer retention wall then careened back across all lanes of traffic.
    Hope Karnopp, Journal Sentinel, 15 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Each wing of the sofa is assembled separately, and then attached to each other at the corner.
    Meg Kernahan, Architectural Digest, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The researcher prompted the AI LLM (large language model) to find a user’s contact details, develop a malicious PowerShell script, and then create an email lure to which the script was attached.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The radios in both cars owned by my parents were permanently affixed to WHDH 850-AM.
    Bill Speros, Boston Herald, 23 Mar. 2025
  • And, crucially, the spindle that connects the blade to the motor isn’t permanently affixed to the machine’s base (as is the case with most food processors), but rather attaches to the inside of the bowl.
    Wilder Davies, Bon Appétit, 21 Mar. 2025
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“Stapled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stapled. Accessed 20 Apr. 2025.

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