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The restaurant sells large, single slices of pizza (cheese is $3.25 and pepperoni is $3.75).—Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 22 Feb. 2025 Fried chicken and pepperoni pizza in a hot holding unit measured below safe temperatures.—Camila Pedrosa, Sacramento Bee, 24 Jan. 2025 Regardless of whether a pepperoni pizza will be sold in schools or the grocery store, its safety is overseen by the USDA.—Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2025 One of the many gifts of sobriety is realizing that ordering a Papa John’s pepperoni pizza with extra garlic sauce at two in the morning is not only unhealthy but a classic red flag.—John Devore, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pepperoni
Word History
Etymology
Italian peperoni cayenne peppers, plural of peperone, augmentative of pepe pepper, from Latin piper — more at pepper
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