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pepper

[pep-er] / ˈpɛp ər /














VERB
season
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK
cook plain






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For their study, the scientists at King's College London analysed 12 raw or uncooked fresh foods - beetroot, bell pepper, broccoli, butternut squash, cauliflower, celeriac, curly kale, fennel, kiwi fruit, leek, pineapple and watermelon.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

The analogy Crill uses is having a habanero pepper in your kitchen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

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

For chicken soup, I roast thighs on a bed of onion, garlic, carrot and celery with big lemon slices, garlic powder, onion powder and plenty of black pepper.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

The captains, he said, were paying ten dollars for a picul of pepper.

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

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

At the fair, paprika seller Agnes Toth recalled picking up peppers as a child, taking part in the family business.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 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

Sweet peas and collards, green peppers and cukes lettuce and melon, berries and peaches and one day when I'm able, my grandfather says, I'm gonna figure out how to grow myself a pecan tree.

From "Brown Girl Dreaming" by Jacqueline Woodson

The film is burnished throughout with split panels to accentuate the party’s animated cross talk, peppered with excerpts from one-on-one interviews that William filmed later.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 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

But they felt like an odd nu-disco inclusion in a lineup peppered with indie rock bands.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

Ophelia peppered him with questions, like why were so many people here hopelessly sick, and why weren’t the roads better?

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

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

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

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

Dasch was a real talker, enjoying the sound of his voice and peppering his conversations with American slang and idioms, such as "scram" and "sight for sore eyes."

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple


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