pepper
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Blend: Remove from the heat, add the cream and season with salt and pepper.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
"But these pellets are not safe. They can result in life-changing or, occasionally, life-threatening injuries. They also pepper the body with toxic lead, which can sometimes be difficult to remove safely," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Pretti’s last act had been to try to defend someone from pepper spray.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
To start, whisk together Parmesan, lemon juice, oil, mayonnaise, Worcestershire sauce, garlic, salt and pepper.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026
“A combination of pepper spray and tear gas,” Mr. Jacobs said.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
Chipotle says it has removed jalapeños from some of its restaurants after determining the peppers could be tied to a salmonella outbreak public health officials are investigating.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
The California-based company said Sunday that it was voluntarily pulling the products because they contained jalapeño peppers tied to an earlier recall by Coast Citrus Distributors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Chipotle on Wednesday said that it had identified jalapenos from a grower in Sinaloa, Mexico that were distributed by Coast Citrus Distributors, and said it removed the peppers from the restaurants where they were sent.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
It brings vegetal sweetness, salt, smoke and nubby creaminess without requiring anyone to roast and peel peppers before packing the cooler.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
Southwest for several thousand years after their domestication in Mexico, and Mexican chili peppers and chenopods never did reach it in prehistoric times.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
As I peppered him with questions about the pink car and the Brinks armored truck, he remained cagey while slowly yielding information.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
McCarthy peppered journalists, congressional staff and even FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover with desperate appeals for evidence, but no one had any.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
But some residents say the giant statue is not the best way to represent the Catholic faith, in a country already peppered with religious monuments, including numerous memorials to Polish pope John Paul II.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
His book reads as a conversational account peppered with occasional quips about contemporary political events.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
The surrounding beach was peppered with smaller pieces of burning wreckage.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
Their restraint with peppering the dialogue with blatant evil effectively allows the version of fear hiding behind the surface politeness of America’s nicest small towns to seep into our consciousness.
From Salon ● Dec. 8, 2025
He whisks the reader from oceanic thermal vents through the rise of mammals to the emergence of human language, peppering the text with goofy drawings and personal anecdotes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025
Sometimes he sounds almost rushed, peppering his narration with “so forths,” and making his readers play odds-or-evens to attribute long stretches of dialogue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025
The Diddy trial has been full of nonstop drama: from constant bickering between the legal teams to outbursts and altercations inside and outside the courthouse, all peppering a constant stream of utterly shocking testimonies.
From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2025
Dasch was a real talker, enjoying the sound of his voice and peppering his conversations with American slang and idioms, such as "scram" and "sight for sore eyes."
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
