pie
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Consider a slice of pumpkin pie: This is “prime pumpkin season” in Illinois, the country’s top supplier of the gourd, said Jacob Goebbert, co-owner and operations manager of a farm in South Barrington, Ill.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
With a business model of streaming where you’re getting a piece of the pie, there’s just so much more in that pie now.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
The trick is not to recreate the chicken bake so faithfully that you simply end up with one lying open-faced on a pie crust.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
Casey’s large pie costs $13.99, which is some 22% below comparable pizza offerings, according to a report from William Blair.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Dasch greedily ate two salads and a hearty slice of coconut cream pie.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
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
I walked down the street like the pied piper, it was awesome.
From BBC ● Jan. 8, 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
The yellow daffadowndillies have burst into bloom, and the tiny cupped flowers of crocuses are spreading their pied blankets of white and purple.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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
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
This idea echoes a term once used to describe pieing: “carnival humor.”
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
