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pea

[pee] / pi /






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My spring pea soup — peas, stock, cream, dill, black pepper and lemon zest — absolutely does not belong in the oven.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

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

Protein makes up about a quarter of a pea, and pea protein has become an increasingly popular source of plant-based protein.

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

He never noticed that the three children were pea green in the spots where they were not beet red from the sunburn.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

Balcarras and Reed were "two peas in a pod" who "got along really, really well" and shared many hobbies, Balcarras' brother, Josh Balcarras, told CBC.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

Eat the pasta — and perhaps add peas and chicken.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 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

Confounding the astronomical unlikeliness, we got along like two peas in a pod.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

His mother returned with a bag of frozen peas for Rawiya.

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro

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

She stared at the supper set before her trout wrapped in bacon, salad of turnip greens and red fennel and sweetgrass, pease and onions and hot bread.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

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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