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pepper

[pep-er] / ˈpɛp ər /














VERB
season
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK
cook plain






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He also spent nearly £2,000 on umbrellas and bought two Lalique salt and pepper shakers costing £2,618.16.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

But if you’re a dipping sauce kind of person, mix the leftover egg yolks with 1 cup of oil, lemon juice, grated garlic and some salt and pepper to make an aioli.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

"Coffee and pepper have suffered because of changing climatic conditions, making diversification essential for farmers."

From BBC Sep. 4, 2026

Photos of sons, daughters, uncles and husbands pepper Chinese social media, shared by people hoping for news about relatives missing since deadly floods on the border with Nepal last week.

From Barron's Sep. 3, 2026

“Mr. Sanchez, call a boat for us. We’ll get pepper somewhere else.”

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham

And somewhere around kielbasa number two or three, I noticed that the same two ingredients kept turning up beside it: peppers and onions.

From Salon Aug. 25, 2026

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

Food producer Taylor Farms is recalling a swathe of its fresh products containing jalapeno peppers after a salmonella outbreak.

From BBC Aug. 10, 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

Onions were made into long ropes, braided together by their tops, and then were hung in the attic beside wreaths of red peppers strung on threads.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

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

Reaction was quick, sad and peppered with family memories.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

One side of Sahil's face and the back of his right arm are peppered with tiny holes.

From BBC Jul. 31, 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

It was freezing, and loud, and it was peppered with hard, biting flakes of snow—but it was blowing me up the mountain.

From "The Honest Truth" by Dan Gemeinhart

There is a despondency now, with words like "depressing" and "empty" peppering the conversation.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

After studying pictures Balogun had posted on social media, some U.S. fans determined he was in Orlando and began peppering his feeds with American flag emojis.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 15, 2026

Maybe too much satisfaction, I realized, after I heard myself peppering him with questions about RPMs, optimal battery voltage and how I could “get more juice.”

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 8, 2025

He’s a compulsive name-dropper, peppering his speeches with boring stories whose only point is to exaggerate his relationship to famous people.

From Salon Sep. 10, 2025

Dozens of spacecraft swooped and buzzed around him, peppering his mech with rocket fire, but their attacks also seemed to have little effect.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline




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