peppy

They’re peppy and fruity … and a glaring recession indicator.

From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026

Shares go for 84 times forward earnings on expectations of a peppy bounce back in earnings through the end of the decade.

From Barron's ● May 1, 2026

“It looks and feels genuinely premium both inside and out, and a smooth ride and peppy powertrain make it nice to drive too,” Edmunds’s Counts told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 7, 2026

The young participants are introduced in the titular opening number, a peppy, melodious song that strikes notes of excitement mixed with anxiety.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025

I can hear lots of voices and shoes squeaking through the hallway, then peppy guitar sounds and Brie singing a hello song.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

Then she switched into a drastically peppier tone for the taping: “Believe it or not, over five thousand of you have joined in the past few days, which is blowing my mind!”

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 10, 2018

This plant is just one of a list of age-old plants and herbal extracts that make people feel a bit peppier, a bit happier, a bit more relaxed.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 9, 2016

The Million Dollar Band’s version is peppier, more of a marching-band sound, compared to USC’s, which hews more closely to the original.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2016

The operative phrase for 2016 Robinson Cano is “a hop in his step,” which is a lot peppier than “acid reflux,” “double sports hernia,” or “the most awful player I’ve ever seen.”

From Seattle Times ● May 20, 2016

"Thanks," said the judge, "a peppier brew From a fairer hand was never knew."

From Something Else Again by Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce) Adams

The peppiest single Joel ever made might get even closer to Motown’s classic Holland-Dozier-Holland sound than Phil Collins did a year earlier in his punctilious remake of the Supremes’ “You Can’t Hurry Love.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2025

And then there’s Van Ness, the quippiest, peppiest of the bunch.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 21, 2018

“Dolly” is surely the peppiest show on Broadway, world capital of pep, and the performers seem to be even more energized by the audience’s response than the first time I saw it.

From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2017

The album’s peppiest song, “What You Need,” matches a track that sounds like foot-stamping, freeze-dried Motown to a vocal that flaunts its electronic warbles.

From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2016

Old friends from Spokane still recognize the happy-go-lucky Crosby approach which is transmitted to radio audiences in the jargon which keeps the Kraft Music Hall one of the peppiest shows on the air.

From Time Magazine Archive