pie
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Within moments of the series’ opening, she’s sliding a pie in the oven and futzing over tiny tarts and meringue kisses to photograph for her Hungry with Hollis followers.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026
We know baking a pie from scratch is a tall order for a weekday, but save this recipe for when you have more time this weekend.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026
Aldi currently holds just 2.9% of the US grocery pie, while Walmart controls about 20%.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
Uncle Sam will take his required slice of the pie, regardless.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
At Snowberger’s the smells of pumpkin pie and com bread dressing upstairs mingled with the etherlike smells from downstairs, where Daddy worked on Myrtis Rogers, getting her ready for a Saturday funeral.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
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
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
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
Thomas hadn't invented pieing, but his contributions to the art were seminal.
From Super Man and the Bug Out by Doctorow, Cory
