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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
Rice noodles are tossed in a glossy dressing of tomato paste, soy sauce, toasted sesame oil, Sriracha, rice wine vinegar and just enough Kewpie mayonnaise to give everything a silky sheen.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 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
The chef joked that the green stuff on our plate was avocado paste.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
She crushed the clay between two rocks and made a thick paste with water to smear over the outside of the boat.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
"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
Mr. Blum said he uses ChatGPT and Claude in a limited way: He pastes in drafts with the prompt “edit for grammar, usage and clarity.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
Leftover curry pastes, chipotles in adobo, gochujang-honey glazes, romesco, tamarind chutney—all of them freeze beautifully.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2025
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
Alexandra Parfitt, 46, a biostatistician, was disappointed to discover her 9-year-old daughter had copied and pasted an internet description of a “Peanuts” cartoon character into a school presentation on Google Slides.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 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
The plaintiffs allege agents fabricated and copied and pasted boilerplate language for those reports from the raid at the Home Depot in south Sacramento.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2025
Meanwhile, the segment’s banner, pasted below both Conway and Watters, read, “Iconic hero movie to embrace pro-immigrant themes.”
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2025
A Tribune clerk stepped to the window and pasted the first bulletin.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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
While pasting the new “Virgencita” poster, she notices an older one of hers to the left — a portrait of transgender activist Marsha P. Johnson — hanging half ripped.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026
This game is more about how Aston Villa respond to their defeat at Arsenal, because they took a bit of a pasting.
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2026
The U.S. botched copying and pasting a relatively straightforward warship already in service in Europe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 2025
“You’re just jealous because we’re going to spend a week cutting and pasting World Series highlights into a PowerPoint presentation,” Jay D. said, smirking.
From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen
