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An example use of staple in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… this is the happy staple figure in my …”
A staple is a thin piece of metal or plastic with a round head that is used to fasten pieces of paper, cloth, or other materials together.
the word staple occurs in english on average 8 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that staple can be often used in the following areas:
1) business and work;