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Sold as powder, extract, paste, or frozen puree, ube is easily mixed into coffee, pastries, ice cream, spreads and even make-up.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
Return labels now arrive in the box and all customers have to do is paste them on the package.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 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
To make the creamy pistachio-tahini paste, combine ¼ cup of pistachio butter with a quarter-teaspoon of tahini.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
Aunty Ifeka reached inside the paste to pick out a small black insect.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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That includes fruits, vegetables, pastes, sauces and pre-made meals.
From Salon ● May 30, 2026
And Thomas just copies and pastes that stuff right into his dissent.
From Slate ● May 15, 2026
Mr. Blum said he uses ChatGPT and Claude in a limited way: He pastes in drafts with the prompt “edit for grammar, usage and clarity.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
Airline passengers around the world had grown used to strict 100ml restrictions on liquids, pastes and gels, which had to be put in a clear plastic bag.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2024
She pastes a kind expression on her face.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
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At an army base serving as a rescue hub in Bidur, relatives crowded around lists of rescued people pasted on a wall.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
They held up flags, piñatas and tall signs pasted with images of Dr. Simi and “Dragonball Z” hero Goku — used to mark one’s place in the sea of people.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Stern sent copy and pasted text of an ABC News article dated 2 October 2009 to Epstein titled Duchess of Debt?
From BBC ● Feb. 1, 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
He could see Black laughing at him through the darkness, as though somebody had pasted the picture from the album over his eyes.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
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Canny readers, meanwhile, practiced scrapbooking—clipping and pasting newspaper articles for future reference.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
A pasting at the hands of Paris Saint-Germain might have coloured their last European campaign but Inter got to that final by seeing off Bayern Munich and Barcelona in epic knockout ties.
From Barron's ● Feb. 24, 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
Some are nicknamed jumping genes because they literally jump around, copying and pasting themselves into different parts of our genome just as if they were still viral invaders.
From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2025
Francie was sitting at the kitchen table pasting poems in old notebooks.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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