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pea

[pee] / pi /






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They have experimented with juice from jagua, a fruit found in Central and South America, and petals from the butterfly pea flower in Southeast Asia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

What then to do with the other three-quarters of the pea?

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026

For more than a century, biology has been guided by the principles of inheritance first described by Gregor Mendel through his famous pea plant experiments.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 1, 2026

Finished with the vivid pea purée and crispy toppings, the whole thing tasted far more luxurious than its pantry origins would suggest.

From Salon ● May 12, 2026

He was indeed poisoned, but the plant that killed him wasn’t wild sweet pea.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

I tossed it with store-bought ravioli and shredded rotisserie chicken warmed in olive oil, put peas on the side, and waited for the part where I needed to fix something.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026

"We have jerk pork, we have rice and peas, we have jerk chicken, curry goat, stewed chicken, fried dumpling and plantain," she said.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

Back in New Jersey, dinnertime with his biological family feels as cold and stale as their meal of frozen peas and store-bought white bread.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

If you’re really worried, skip uncooked produce like salad mixes, berries, basil, and snap peas for the time being.

From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026

He throws a large chunk of pork and several pounds of peas with water into the cook pot.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

For travel updates follow @TSYalerts And pease, please DO NOT enter flood water- either by car or on foot.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 8, 2019

This relief usually consisted of potted beef and pease pudding; items that, given the limited capacity for long-term food storage in the 19th century, had some chance of surviving the journey between islands.

From Time ● Sep. 27, 2017

When I realised Greggs no longer sold ham and pease pudding stotties I thought: 'Is this what it has come to?'

From The Guardian ● Oct. 27, 2010

Like pease porridge in the pot, the Louis-Conn $100-a-seat fiasco was nine days old.

From Time Magazine Archive

The ale was well brewed and there was pease porridge and bread for supper.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli

The soil along the coast is not deep of earth, bringing forth abundantly peasen small, yet good feeding for cattle.

From Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland by Edward Hayes

He used to wear Flowers in his smock, gold-clocks and peasen; And spindle-fruit in hunting season.

From Reynard the Fox by John Masefield

Of the first-named picture he observed:— "Or crowding round one pool, from flowery shelves A group of damsels bowed the knee Over reflections solid as themselves And like as peasen be."

From The History of "Punch" by M. H. (Marion Harry) Spielmann


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