pepper
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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
The officers tried to calm the situation but then used pepper spray.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Each one has a crisp, dramatically puffed border surrounding a baked egg, with salty pancetta, sharp pecorino and enough black pepper to send the whole thing in a cacio e pepe direction.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
Crack one egg into each center, then scatter with cubed pancetta, grated pecorino and plenty of black pepper.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
They, too, shook their heads over the prospects of another ship loading pepper.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
Unless cooked, vegetables such as green peppers, green onions, tomatoes and mushrooms were also off-limits.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
Could eating lots of chili peppers affect your cancer risk?
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
Coverage of the foodstuffs whisked into MSG includes photo evidence of eggs, bell peppers, oranges and arugula.
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2026
Many of Jamaica's peppers are sold to neighbouring Caribbean islands.
From BBC ● May 31, 2026
She felt as if there were a mixture of peppers and sand inside them, pricking and burning her lids.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
His book reads as a conversational account peppered with occasional quips about contemporary political events.
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
One of the exhibition's central stories focuses on the peppered moth, which adapted during the industrial revolution by developing darker colouring to blend in with soot-covered buildings.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
Just ask Robbins, who peppered a recent Instagram post sponsored by Microsoft Copilot with feminist-lite language while urging women to share their financial records with the AI.
From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026
His whole body was peppered with goose bumps.
From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen
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
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
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
I hear shouts rise from the street, peppering the house.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
