paste
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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
You can either copy and paste that directly into a chat box or read it out over the phone to a representative.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
Cowboys would scrape the wriggling larvae from wounds on cattle and smear the now-banned paste over it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
If there's one thing the transatlantic cousins of Cornwall and Hidalgo will have in common this summer, it's that they'll be enjoying the World Cup with a pasty - or paste - in hand.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
There's a glob of paste poking out from Max's cap.
From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi
"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
That includes fruits, vegetables, pastes, sauces and pre-made meals.
From Salon ● May 30, 2026
And Thomas just copies and pastes that stuff right into his dissent.
From Slate ● May 15, 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
He also had many different ointments, lotions, syrups, and pastes all made out of onion juice and different parts of the onion plant.
From "Holes" by Louis Sachar
His argument ignores the point made by posters pasted all over Venice this week.
From BBC ● May 6, 2026
Their faces are pasted on walls and lampposts across Mexico, and demonstrators regularly hoist banners demanding the return of loved ones whose names are memorialized in chants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2026
She stepped into the bathroom, rubbed some adhesive across her face, pasted on the fake beard, and colored her hair with gray paint she had bought at a costume shop.
From Slate ● Nov. 15, 2025
To assist confused loyalists, the grocer has pasted a small sign by the entryway, adorned with the company logo and, in Whole Foods’s signature deep-green text, a reminder to passersby: “We’re Still Here!”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2025
He picked up the torn grass and pasted it on the gourds head, where it settled in tufty clumps, held tight by the sticky sap.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
Canny readers, meanwhile, practiced scrapbooking—clipping and pasting newspaper articles for future reference.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
Workers at the Pyroshine factory were now busy pasting wolf-themed packaging onto boxes to be shipped to the United States.
From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 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
My mother said she used a laundry iron to flatten it out before pasting it next to hers in the scrapbook.
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
