pepper
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Pretti’s last act had been to try to defend someone from pepper spray.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
By sauce No. 4 — Chickpotle, a creamy chickpea sauce with smoky chipotle and ghost pepper with a 4/10 heat level — Holland and Bernthal were loosening up and trading barbs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Season with salt, pepper and fresh lemon juice.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
The officers tried to calm the situation but then used pepper spray.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Potatoes, mushrooms, bell peppers, and carrots were all dumped together in a roasting pan with olive oil, salt, and pepper.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
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
Natalia leaves out healthy finger food, like chopped peppers and apples, for her children to pick at.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Unless cooked, vegetables such as green peppers, green onions, tomatoes and mushrooms were also off-limits.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
A large review published in Frontiers in Nutrition examined the available evidence and found that people who consumed the most chili peppers were more likely to develop certain gastrointestinal cancers, especially esophageal cancer.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
I could feel my tongue slowly begin to throb as the heat of the peppers crawled over it like an army of tiny fire ants.
From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez
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
For more than an hour, attorney Marilyn Bednarski peppered L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
“I’m just trying to get Justice Alito’s vote,” veteran litigator Lisa Blatt said as she was being peppered with technical questions about plea bargains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
He was peppered with 27 shots from 2010 World Cup champion Spain, making seven saves for the Blue Sharks.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 2026
“I heard once about a man who was so hungry he salted and peppered himself and swallowed himself whole!”
From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper
The court was told no obvious damage was noted on the car when the officers returned to Strabane police station, but there was peppering of the paint surface.
From BBC ● May 14, 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
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
Students were constantly peppering me with questions I didn’t have the answers to.
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
