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pie

[pahy] / paɪ /






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The chancellor was working late in his Downing Street flat last night, finishing off his plans after having fish pie for tea, conscious his first Budget starts the between times - and they're almost here.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

The book also includes 30 “recipes from Old Philadelphia,” ranging from catfish and waffles to South Philly-style tomato pie, that demonstrate the breadth of Philadelphia’s multicultural, multiracial, ever-changing culinary landscape.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Tkatch added that there’s nothing new about using scent as a marketing tool, at least not since the first time “the owner of a restaurant cooked a pie and put it on the top shelf.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

In 2020, the mother and daughter duo were understood to have bought adjacent abodes in the exclusive neighborhood, with Kris paying $20 million for her piece of the property pie.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

“Oh, surely,” he says, reaching for my plate of pie.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

A neo-traditionalist and pied piper for the New York downtown set, Keith and his nine lives most recently turned to Instagram after a stroke impaired his ability to speak.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025

Meanwhile, the southern pied babbler does not, in fact, merely babble.

From Salon ● May 29, 2025

And when she got pied in the face at a press conference in Iowa—her instant response: “At least it’s a fruit pie”—a whole bunch of Americans reveled in her comeuppance.

From Slate ● Jan. 11, 2025

Smith oozes upside, and he’s passionate about the Ducks — a bonus in that he could be a pied piper who attracts other recruits.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2024

Pigeons could be made to look like roosters and peacocks, and dogs made short-haired, long-haired, pied, piebald, bowlegged, hairless, crop-tailed, vicious, mild-mannered, diffident, guarded, belligerent.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Political pieing, too, had its moment in the sun during the second half of the 20th century.

From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2024

The BBB was a big part of this political pieing movement, which began in 1970 and grew to involve activists around the world, until it petered out around 2011.

From Slate ● Dec. 31, 2022

This idea echoes a term once used to describe pieing: “carnival humor.”

From Slate ● Dec. 31, 2022

The philosophy was simple: use pieing as a way to hold people that the BBB saws as destructive accountable—and raise awareness of their misdeeds.

From Slate ● Dec. 31, 2022

Thomas hadn't invented pieing, but his contributions to the art were seminal.

From Super Man and the Bug Out by Cory Doctorow


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