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pepper

[pep-er] / ˈpɛp ər /














VERB
season
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK
cook plain






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Working from before dawn until midnight, farmers Nikoletta Pajsan Nagy and Laszlo Pajsan fought Europe's driest summer ever to save their red pepper harvest in Hungary.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

The grandfather says that a group of Israeli soldiers protected his family from the settlers who tried to approach them, using pepper spray to force them back.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

My spring pea soup — peas, stock, cream, dill, black pepper and lemon zest — absolutely does not belong in the oven.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

I whisked the eggs and cream with garlic powder, onion powder, dried thyme, oregano, red pepper flakes, salt and pepper, plus a little drizzle of soy sauce.

From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026

Back then the only things Mama purchased from the store were coffee beans, granulated sugar, salt, and pepper.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

OpenAI’s chip program, known internally as Nexus, includes custom chips named after types of peppers, with the first- and second-generation versions known as Jalapeño and Serrano.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Booths were adorned with strings of dried red peppers -- the raw ingredient used to make paprika -- recalling a sight once common on houses in the surrounding countryside every autumn.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

Pericana lands dark and red and glistening with oil, a spread for bread made with sun-dried tomatoes, peppers, and cured fish.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 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

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

The Tulare County elections office in the Central Valley was suddenly getting peppered with questions from baffled voters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

But while her lyrics describe situations both grave and dangerous—the record’s title is a homophone for “violence”—her words are peppered with bizarre humor and images that aren’t easy to decode.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

His calls for action are peppered with the occasional "Amen", pronounced in the American way, with the first syllable said "ay" rather than "ah".

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Hundreds of robotics startups, some just a couple years old, peppered the sprawling convention centre hoping to dazzle.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

To my other side stood rows of snow-burdened cypress trees peppered among flat-topped clay houses—no more than mud shacks in most cases—separated by narrow alleys.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

Redemption requests peppering private-credit interval funds have generated opportunities for secondary buyers hoping to acquire discounted assets by providing cash that fund managers can return to investors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

By March, some OpenAI employees had grown frustrated, peppering a top executive with questions about the company’s future.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 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

"Things are really taking hold," he said, before analysts started peppering him with questions about profits.

From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2026

The mare splashed through the stream, peppering her riders with droplets of cool water, then headed for the cemetery, which was clouded over with a strange silvery mist.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby


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