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[peyst] / peɪst /




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To make the creamy pistachio-tahini paste, combine ¼ cup of pistachio butter with a quarter-teaspoon of tahini.

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

You can either copy and paste that directly into a chat box or read it out over the phone to a representative.

From MarketWatch Jun. 23, 2026

Cowboys would scrape the wriggling larvae from wounds on cattle and smear the now-banned paste over it.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

Sweet rice cakes with gooey walnut paste next to stalls of fish cake and raw seafood.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh

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

He also had many different ointments, lotions, syrups, and pastes all made out of onion juice and different parts of the onion plant.

From "Holes" by Louis Sachar

Their faces are pasted on walls and lampposts across Mexico, and demonstrators regularly hoist banners demanding the return of loved ones whose names are memorialized in chants.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 6, 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

To assist confused loyalists, the grocer has pasted a small sign by the entryway, adorned with the company logo and, in Whole Foods’s signature deep-green text, a reminder to passersby: “We’re Still Here!”

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 2, 2025

He can now see that it is, indeed, his own journal, open to a page with a card pasted onto it, printed with winged creatures crawling over a spoked wheel.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

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

This game is more about how Aston Villa respond to their defeat at Arsenal, because they took a bit of a pasting.

From BBC Jan. 2, 2026

Yet, he’s pathetic at maintaining order, pasting a misspelled sign on his police car that reads: Your being manipulated.

From Los Angeles Times May 18, 2025

Like Matt, beating his chest with bravado and pasting it thick with swamp grass that he called a manly pelt?

From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry




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