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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
stale .
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Examples
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The reason why cans of grocery coffee like Maxwell House taste so bad is that the coffee is pre-staled before canning.
The Coffee Geek’s Guide To Storing Beans | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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I'm not the biggest Tim Burton fan, a lot like Terry Gilliam, I feel he sometimes gets too caught up creating the aesthetics and some of his films border on that gothic style which I feel has staled really badly.
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God knows I've been there often enough myself, when passion has staled to moody discontent, sullen exchanges wax into recrimination, the errant wife makes odious comparisons to the lover's disadvantage - and that's the moment when Lothario, cut to the quick, speaks his mind of the cuckolded husband.
Watershed 2010
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Case staled at the printed logo and its Japanese translation.
Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth Boudreau Freret 2010
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Hillary is living her millionaire life style, while voters like you sit staled in time, concentrating on the and. buts and what if ….
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Even the air seemed to have staled within the streams of weak light.
The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009
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Even the air seemed to have staled within the streams of weak light.
The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009
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The reason why cans of grocery coffee like Maxwell House taste so bad is that the coffee is pre-staled before canning.
The Coffee Geek’s Guide To Storing Beans | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Even the air seemed to have staled within the streams of weak light.
The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009
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Even the air seemed to have staled within the streams of weak light.
The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009
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