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Example sentences for: staid

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She was hired because she's a managerial whiz who helped transform Lucent from a staid spin-off of AT&T into a prototypical bleeding-edge company.
Just as the staid, old British English was rejuvenated after the First World Was by the injection of American, no-nonsense grittiness, so modern American English is being saved; this time by the charge of honest and potent street-talk into the flim-flam and flummery of the body linguistic.
Admirably (to many) resisting this commercial tide, the NewsHour seems even more civil and staid.
South of the more staid Marina del Rey, the world’s largest small-boat harbor, the beaches continue in an unbroken golden curve — Dockweiler, Manhattan, Hermosa, Redondo — to the rocky bluffs of Palos Verdes.
Free from the confines of the International Festival’s rules and regulations, the Fringe has become synonymous with art that “pushes the envelope,” and it has grown to eclipse its more staid official brother.