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Sold as powder, extract, paste, or frozen puree, ube is easily mixed into coffee, pastries, ice cream, spreads and even make-up.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
Eataly itself sells a $25.99 Alfredo that, unlike so many jarred Alfredo sauces, does not taste as though someone dissolved Parmesan into wallpaper paste.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 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
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
Her mind floated lazily between reality and sleep, taking in the intermingling smells of smoke, ponya seed paste, and the surrounding trees as they creaked and rustled in the darkness.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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He adds that Pachuca and Real del Monte still have shops selling pasties, or pastes as they are known in Mexico, with Cornish flags visible in the most traditional stores in Real del Monte.
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
"Bookworm" is a cute thing to call a voracious reader, but actual bookworms -- as well as microorganisms and time -- break down the flour pastes commonly used to keep old publications in one piece.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2024
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
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At an army base in the Nepali town of Bidur, a key rescue hub, relatives crowded around lists of rescued people pasted on a wall.
From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 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
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
His argument ignores the point made by posters pasted all over Venice this week.
From BBC ● May 6, 2026
Their new slogan was summed up in General Kuribayashi’s “Courageous Battle Vow” that was pasted on the walls of every pillbox.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
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Doctors, nurses and patients were pasting reflective sheets onto the windows to keep out the sun.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 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
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
One described the work as boring, little more than copying and pasting bank account info between scammers and motorcades.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2025
Did I really sit on the floor of Grace’s bedroom, on her braided bedside rug, cutting out pictures of frying pans and washing machines from the Eaton's Catalogue and pasting them into a scrapbook?
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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