Base and Staple

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Base noun - An immaterial thing upon which something else rests.

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Staple and base are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Staple" instead a noun "Base".

Nearby Words: basic, basal, based, baseline, baseball

Staple noun - The main or greater part of something as distinguished from its subordinate parts.

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Base and staple are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Base" instead the word "Staple" as a noun or an adjective.

Nearby Words: stapled, stapling, stapler

Also, the enemies outside and inside (this is the era where the 'base under siege' plot was most commonly used as a staple).

Source: Central Theme / Live-Action TV
This is a staple of the entire Tower Defense Genre, which has increasingly strong monsters walk past your towers, which continuously attack them, towards your base.

Source: Death of a Thousand Cuts aka: Death By A Thousand Cuts
After that, "villains attacking the base" became a staple of the Grand Finale.

Source: All Your Base Are Belong to Us

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