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pate

[payt] / peɪt /
NOUN
head
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Pizza popped up as often as pate on plates, while one caterer from La Reunion has won social media adulation for his gifts of cari, a spicy dish popular on the Indian Ocean island.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

Shekoh Confections – Master Chocolatier Shekoh Moossavi creates hand-painted bonbons, sea-salt caramels and pate de fruits inspired by Persian heritage and French technique.

From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2025

With his bald pate, dark-framed glasses and knowing demeanor, he has become one of the foremost chroniclers of the world’s media barons and Manhattan potentates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2025

Hey, maybe the president will fall in love with the city over the next three years — and maybe Miller’s bald pate will grow hair worthy of Samson.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2025

They came bearing gifts: Angelo with his wine and pate, and Sue with a bouquet picked from her garden.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

He’s raising the price of other items, like ground sausage and pates, to offset the higher costs of poultry.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2022

Like bald pates, black holes of similar masses and spins then have no details—no “hair”—to distinguish them, as American theorist John Archibald Wheeler quipped.

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 20, 2018

Miss Dormer says “Hunger Games” fans often approach her to discuss Cressida’s unique “undercut” hairstyle, a style many acolytes of the books and films have copied on their own pates.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 19, 2015

Indelibly enigmatic, she tickles their pates but evades their clutches.

From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2012

When called upon, I delivered an effortless list of things that I detest: blood sausage, intestinal pates, brain pudding, I’d learned these words the hard way.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris


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