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paste

[peyst] / peɪst /




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Pesto is made here with basil, extra virgin olive oil, pine nuts, garlic and grated cheese, all ground to a thick paste.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

Other descriptions have included it being like a mix of anchovy paste and high-strength cod liver oil.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2026

During our Zoom, with the background carefully faded behind her wavy blond bob, she promises that she doesn’t just copy and paste her subjects and settings from what sells.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

The sauce is then finished with soy sauce, rice vinegar, sugar and chili paste along with a cornstarch slurry to thicken it.

From Salon Jun. 28, 2026

“My pa always swore by a poultice of brown sugar and cobwebs—though where you’d find cobwebs in this bitter cold, I have no idea. Flour paste and brown paper should work fine, too.”

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

And Thomas just copies and pastes that stuff right into his dissent.

From Slate May 15, 2026

With shelves full of whitening, charcoal, and enamel-boosting pastes, it's easy to assume the pricier options will give you a healthier smile.

From BBC Nov. 2, 2025

The development of new pastes advanced the formation and integration of sculpture; and “paste on paste” permitted the use of incised bas-reliefs.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 1, 2025

The researchers used simple fluids for this research, but the approach could be expanded to include more complex fluids, such as liquid polymers, pastes and various types of foods.

From Science Daily Oct. 31, 2023

I feel happy when Joy pastes a gold star in my notebook, although I think maybe part of the reason I am getting it is because Joy feels sorry for me.

From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar

At an army base serving as a rescue hub in Bidur, relatives crowded around lists of rescued people pasted on a wall.

From Barron's Aug. 30, 2026

They held up flags, piñatas and tall signs pasted with images of Dr. Simi and “Dragonball Z” hero Goku — used to mark one’s place in the sea of people.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2026

On Monday at the Nottingham Inquiry, mental health nurse Busayo Ajewole admitted her notes were at times lacking information, copied and pasted and fundamentally wrong.

From BBC Apr. 27, 2026

We carried the empty paper bag home with us on the plane, taking care not to rip it, and then pasted it into in our scrapbook.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 20, 2026

The boss slashed impotently at newspapers, printed blurry slips and pasted items askew.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

Tired_Thumb looked up the name on a public records search website and shared the agent’s phone number in a comment, pasting the link to their source seconds later.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

A pasting at the hands of Paris Saint-Germain might have coloured their last European campaign but Inter got to that final by seeing off Bayern Munich and Barcelona in epic knockout ties.

From Barron's Feb. 24, 2026

There is hope in senior circles that the review, together with big infrastructure plans, can be used to create a summer of good news, after many months of taking a pasting.

From BBC May 24, 2025

Yet, he’s pathetic at maintaining order, pasting a misspelled sign on his police car that reads: Your being manipulated.

From Los Angeles Times May 18, 2025

There they all were now, the cream of the school, the lights and leaders of the senior class, with their high I.Q.’s and expensive shoes, as Brinker had said, pasting each other with snowballs.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles




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