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[payst] / peɪst /




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The sites are dubbed "pink slime" after the fluorescent pink meat paste used as an additive by food manufacturers.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

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

The vegetables should become deeply soft and jammy while retaining a little texture; you are not trying to cook them into a completely smooth paste.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

It means Dilworth at the Football Supporters Association is cautious about clubs simply seeking to "copy and paste from the men's game".

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

She set a tube of paste and a cup by the door, next to Papi’s shaving things.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

"It's our most traditional dish here in Pachuca. If you don't have much time, there's always a pastes store around the corner," Hernandez says.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026

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

From Slate ● May 15, 2026

Seeds and pitted fruits can also be added in the form of pastes, purees and syrups.

From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2026

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

Helda, on May’s orders, kept the Korean foodstuffs down here, the earthenware jars of pickled vegetables and meats, the fermented seasoning pastes and sauces, strips of dried seafood.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

"It was pasted on a chest that was floating," said Rimal, 44.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

It features the base of an old sewing machine pasted over with a cigar box wrapper and the oft-reoccurring theme of a moon, sun and stars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 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

Stern sent copy and pasted text of an ABC News article dated 2 October 2009 to Epstein titled Duchess of Debt?

From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2026

The clerk said, "The models are glued together, see, and pasted on a board. So how else do you think they stay up?"

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg

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

One described the work as boring, little more than copying and pasting bank account info between scammers and motorcades.

From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2025

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

One evening while Father was out and Shirley was pasting clippings in her Dodgers scrapbook, the lights suddenly went off.

From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord


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