pepper
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I prefer mine on the less-sweet side, but both the honey and pepper are easy to adjust depending on your fruit and your taste.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
I spooned it over the hot toast and finished it with scallions, sesame seeds, black pepper and olive oil.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 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
If you feel like it needs a little something, add some salt and/or pepper.
From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones
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
There are about 1 million cases a year, according to a 2019 study, and researchers say seeded vegetables like peppers are of particular concern.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Closely related species replace each other geographically among the amaranths, beans, chenopods, chili peppers, cottons, squashes, and tobaccos.
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
On the set of the Reba McEntire sitcom “Happy’s Place,” they peppered the producer with questions about how Hollywood uses AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 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
For more than an hour, attorney Marilyn Bednarski peppered L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Today, astronomers suspect that the universe is about 15 billion light-years across and peppered everywhere with clusters of galaxies.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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
"Things are really taking hold," he said, before analysts started peppering him with questions about profits.
From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2026
The executive sounded undeterred by the risks of a takeover of Kenvue during his call with analysts and investors, peppering his remarks with personal anecdotes and cracks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 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
Astonished fans and journalists gathered around them on the dock, peppering them with questions: Was the University of Washington in the District of Columbia?
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
