paste
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Pesto is made here with basil, extra virgin olive oil, pine nuts, garlic and grated cheese, all ground to a thick paste.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
It means Dilworth at the Football Supporters Association is cautious about clubs simply seeking to "copy and paste from the men's game".
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
The filling is the same: bright green pistachio butter mixed with tahini paste and toasted kataifi, or thin strands of shredded phyllo dough pastry.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
During our Zoom, with the background carefully faded behind her wavy blond bob, she promises that she doesn’t just copy and paste her subjects and settings from what sells.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
She was stirring a doughy paste of ground beans in a mortar.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
And Thomas just copies and pastes that stuff right into his dissent.
From Slate ● May 15, 2026
Seeds and pitted fruits can also be added in the form of pastes, purees and syrups.
From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2026
The development of new pastes advanced the formation and integration of sculpture; and “paste on paste” permitted the use of incised bas-reliefs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2025
"George lies and pastes all kinds of things together that aren't true."
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2024
"Keep blinking. They will settle into place. There's more of them in the toilette box, along with skin-color pastes," she says.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
Alexandra Parfitt, 46, a biostatistician, was disappointed to discover her 9-year-old daughter had copied and pasted an internet description of a “Peanuts” cartoon character into a school presentation on Google Slides.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
She stepped into the bathroom, rubbed some adhesive across her face, pasted on the fake beard, and colored her hair with gray paint she had bought at a costume shop.
From Slate ● Nov. 15, 2025
While sharing their memory-keeping mothers’ pasted pages and nostalgic ethos, these journals have broken family tradition with their messy aesthetic and preference for oft-discarded objects.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2025
Meanwhile, the segment’s banner, pasted below both Conway and Watters, read, “Iconic hero movie to embrace pro-immigrant themes.”
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2025
I frowned, but when I saw Macy watching me, I pasted on a smile.
From "Keep It Together, Keiko Carter" by Debbi Michiko Florence
Tired_Thumb looked up the name on a public records search website and shared the agent’s phone number in a comment, pasting the link to their source seconds later.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Workers at the Pyroshine factory were now busy pasting wolf-themed packaging onto boxes to be shipped to the United States.
From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026
While pasting the new “Virgencita” poster, she notices an older one of hers to the left — a portrait of transgender activist Marsha P. Johnson — hanging half ripped.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026
In Rome they romped to a 4-0 lead on the first morning by delivering an alternate shot pasting that the US never recovered from.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2025
He will stand at his desk folding and pasting and cutting until twelve o’clock at night.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
