pie
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The dessert was thrown away uneaten, but humble pie was what the council members were eating Tuesday as they congratulated the mayor-elect.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026
I also know that sometimes a packet of gravy is exactly what a weeknight cottage pie or a skillet full of meatballs needs.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026
Workers likely won’t be willing to accept an even smaller share of the pie, Higgins said, particularly as rising costs of living continue to squeeze more low-income consumers.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 1, 2026
They’re fighting for a piece of a pie that may not even exist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Then she thrust the pie into Ivy’s hands, turned away, and fled.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
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
Articulate, charismatic and based in the host city of the next Paralympic Games, Frech has positioned himself to be the pied piper of the Paralympic movement for years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2024
It was a pied crow, a black-and-white bird that people in Africa sometimes make into a pet.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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 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
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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