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pate

[peyt] / peɪt /
NOUN
head
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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

The resulting mess, he said, left him with no choice but to start over with a clean pate.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2025

The bread was thin and appropriately crumbly, the pate a nice thick schmear and the jalapeño provided quite a kick.

From Seattle Times Apr. 10, 2024

During a predawn breakfast of liver pate and fig cookies, we gather around Tigris’s television for one of Beetee’s break-ins.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

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

That proscription is known as the no-hair theorem because famed American theorist John Archibald Wheeler quipped that it meant black holes were as indistinguishable as bald pates.

From Science Magazine Sep. 13, 2019

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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