Stale
adjective
No longer fresh and good to eat or drink.
Never eat stale food as it can make you ill.
Often appears as...
- stale bread
- stale beer
adjective
Having lost interest, excitement, or novelty.
Their marriage had become stale after so many years.
Often appears as...
- stale relationship
- stale joke
verb
To make or become stale.
The bread will stale if not eaten within a few days.
Often appears as...
- stale quickly
- will stale
adjective
In law, an claim or idea which is no longer legally valid due to it being outdated.
The stale claim was dismissed by the judge.
Often appears as...
- stale claim
- stale case
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Formal
adjective
No longer fresh and good to eat or drink.
Never eat stale food as it can make you ill.
Often appears as...
- stale bread
- stale beer
adjective
Having lost interest, excitement, or novelty.
Their marriage had become stale after so many years.
Often appears as...
- stale relationship
- stale joke
verb
To make or become stale.
The bread will stale if not eaten within a few days.
Often appears as...
- stale quickly
- will stale
adjective
In law, an claim or idea which is no longer legally valid due to it being outdated.
The stale claim was dismissed by the judge.
Often appears as...
- stale claim
- stale case
Usage tips
Formal
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Food Quality
Stale often refers to bread or baked goods that are hard and dry from age.
Stale cookies don't have that satisfying crunch anymore.
Pro Tip 2/3Aged Beverages
'Stale' for drinks implies a loss of carbonation or flavor over time.
The soda tasted flat and stale the day after opening.
Pro Tip 3/3Figurative Use
In a broader sense, things like ideas can figuratively become 'stale'.
The author's new book offered stale ideas recycled from his previous works.
Pro Tip 1/3Food Quality
Stale often refers to bread or baked goods that are hard and dry from age.
Stale cookies don't have that satisfying crunch anymore.
Pro Tip 2/3Aged Beverages
'Stale' for drinks implies a loss of carbonation or flavor over time.
The soda tasted flat and stale the day after opening.
Pro Tip 3/3Figurative Use
In a broader sense, things like ideas can figuratively become 'stale'.
The author's new book offered stale ideas recycled from his previous works.
Pro Tip 1/3Food Quality
Stale often refers to bread or baked goods that are hard and dry from age.
Stale cookies don't have that satisfying crunch anymore.
Pro Tip 2/3Aged Beverages
'Stale' for drinks implies a loss of carbonation or flavor over time.
The soda tasted flat and stale the day after opening.
Pro Tip 3/3Figurative Use
In a broader sense, things like ideas can figuratively become 'stale'.
The author's new book offered stale ideas recycled from his previous works.
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Agile programming -- for...
that but to me adapt all the time means something deeper too we have to break parents out of this straitjacket that the only ideas we can try at home are ones that come from shrinks or self-help gurus or other family experts the truth is their ideas are stale whereas in all these other worlds are these new ideas
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Tristram Stuart: The...
And I started to feed them in the most traditional and environmentally friendly way. I went to my school kitchen, and I said, "Give me the scraps that my school friends have turned their noses up at." I went to the local baker and took their stale bread. I went to the local greengrocer, and I went to a farmer
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Safari Live - Day 182 PIPE...
and likely stale muffin that Ari produced for her but this morning with a matchstick in it for his birthday so I thought that fergus I should have been more aware of the Sun you see how Fergus moved to be with the Sun they're very important in summer look at this little
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Bruce Feiler: Agile...
We have to break parents out of this straitjacket that the only ideas we can try at home are ones that come from shrinks or self-help gurus or other family experts. The truth is, their ideas are stale, whereas in all these other worlds there are these new ideas
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How tech companies can...
was stale by the time I needed to make decisions about chronic disease interventions, or mental health or even violence or intimate partner violence issues in my community. And so the desire to make data useful and accessible to support people in communities
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Jonathan Zittrain: The...
No. I think the actual answer is that once you reframe it, once you get out of one set of stale expectations from a failed project that had its day, but now, for whatever reason, is tarnished, you can actually rekindle the kind of human kindness and sharing
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Immigrant voices make...
that I think can help make our democracy stronger. We actually have the power to change the outcome of elections, to introduce new issues into the policy debate and to change the face of the pale, male, stale leadership that we have in our country today.
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Creating a public school...
all of us to promise that next year here at Ted using the power of the Ted community we are going to construct a movement that's going to take the lab innovations and stale them across the United States of America and that's
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Fascinating Termite...
and it draws down the stale warm air from the colony above down long chimneys which go right round the edge of the cellar as it does so there's a seepage of gas through porous dimples and the walls
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How I unlearned...
My old stale modes of thinking were invited into the open to see if this is who I wanted to be in life. I was accompanied by skilled facilitators on a journey into the depths of myself
Video examples
Agile programming -- for...
that but to me adapt all the time means something deeper too we have to break parents out of this straitjacket that the only ideas we can try at home are ones that come from shrinks or self-help gurus or other family experts the truth is their ideas are stale whereas in all these other worlds are these new ideas
Video examples
Tristram Stuart: The...
And I started to feed them in the most traditional and environmentally friendly way. I went to my school kitchen, and I said, "Give me the scraps that my school friends have turned their noses up at." I went to the local baker and took their stale bread. I went to the local greengrocer, and I went to a farmer
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 182 PIPE...
and likely stale muffin that Ari produced for her but this morning with a matchstick in it for his birthday so I thought that fergus I should have been more aware of the Sun you see how Fergus moved to be with the Sun they're very important in summer look at this little
Video examples
Bruce Feiler: Agile...
We have to break parents out of this straitjacket that the only ideas we can try at home are ones that come from shrinks or self-help gurus or other family experts. The truth is, their ideas are stale, whereas in all these other worlds there are these new ideas
Video examples
How tech companies can...
was stale by the time I needed to make decisions about chronic disease interventions, or mental health or even violence or intimate partner violence issues in my community. And so the desire to make data useful and accessible to support people in communities
Video examples
Jonathan Zittrain: The...
No. I think the actual answer is that once you reframe it, once you get out of one set of stale expectations from a failed project that had its day, but now, for whatever reason, is tarnished, you can actually rekindle the kind of human kindness and sharing
Video examples
Immigrant voices make...
that I think can help make our democracy stronger. We actually have the power to change the outcome of elections, to introduce new issues into the policy debate and to change the face of the pale, male, stale leadership that we have in our country today.
Video examples
Creating a public school...
all of us to promise that next year here at Ted using the power of the Ted community we are going to construct a movement that's going to take the lab innovations and stale them across the United States of America and that's
Video examples
Fascinating Termite...
and it draws down the stale warm air from the colony above down long chimneys which go right round the edge of the cellar as it does so there's a seepage of gas through porous dimples and the walls
Video examples
How I unlearned...
My old stale modes of thinking were invited into the open to see if this is who I wanted to be in life. I was accompanied by skilled facilitators on a journey into the depths of myself
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Quote examples
Jack Welch
American Businessman
What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn't right, or if the offerings aren't right, it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros.
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Ricochet
American Wrestler
When it comes to the moves themselves, after I created a style, a lot of guys started doing the same moves I was. I had to switch up my whole offense. Then, when it happened again, I had to switch it up again. It was a hard thing to do, but it helps me grow and helps me not become stale.
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Jon Lovett
American Producer
We need people to point out groupthink - We need people to point out stale, old, dumb thinking - and we sometimes need to do that when it's considered dangerous, strange, or, by some, offensive. And we should be, all of us, trying to protect that. It's really important.
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Gabriel Iglesias
American Comedian
I'm all about showing people that I'm a little messed up, I have a lot of the same problems you have. By exposing myself and putting myself out there, people can relate to me and my act won't grow stale. I mean, nobody wants to hear a comedian say, 'Life is great.
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Julie Plec
American Producer
It doesn't matter if these characters are supposed to be together forever: if their chemistry gets stale, you want somebody to die, you want to put somebody in a coma, you want to write them off the show - anything to save you.
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Jeffrey Dean Morgan
American Actor
Sometimes in TV, it can get really stale, especially if you're doing these 23-episode years. It's a lot of work, and to put your family through that, on a location, is not always the greatest thing in the world.
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Robert Lopez
American Musician
With comedy, the jokes will come out, and people will see them coming. Changes in daily life or current events can change the consciousness of audiences and can make the show less funny or feel more stale.
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William Shakespeare
English Playwright
O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
American Novelist
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
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Jerry Saltz
American Critic
Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world.
Quote examples
Jack Welch
American Businessman
What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn't right, or if the offerings aren't right, it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros.
Quote examples
Ricochet
American Wrestler
When it comes to the moves themselves, after I created a style, a lot of guys started doing the same moves I was. I had to switch up my whole offense. Then, when it happened again, I had to switch it up again. It was a hard thing to do, but it helps me grow and helps me not become stale.
Quote examples
Jon Lovett
American Producer
We need people to point out groupthink - We need people to point out stale, old, dumb thinking - and we sometimes need to do that when it's considered dangerous, strange, or, by some, offensive. And we should be, all of us, trying to protect that. It's really important.
Quote examples
Gabriel Iglesias
American Comedian
I'm all about showing people that I'm a little messed up, I have a lot of the same problems you have. By exposing myself and putting myself out there, people can relate to me and my act won't grow stale. I mean, nobody wants to hear a comedian say, 'Life is great.
Quote examples
Julie Plec
American Producer
It doesn't matter if these characters are supposed to be together forever: if their chemistry gets stale, you want somebody to die, you want to put somebody in a coma, you want to write them off the show - anything to save you.
Quote examples
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
American Actor
Sometimes in TV, it can get really stale, especially if you're doing these 23-episode years. It's a lot of work, and to put your family through that, on a location, is not always the greatest thing in the world.
Quote examples
Robert Lopez
American Musician
With comedy, the jokes will come out, and people will see them coming. Changes in daily life or current events can change the consciousness of audiences and can make the show less funny or feel more stale.
Quote examples
William Shakespeare
English Playwright
O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
Quote examples
Isaac Bashevis Singer
American Novelist
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Quote examples
Jerry Saltz
American Critic
Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world.
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