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Consider Domino’s Smart Slice pepperoni pizza: It’s made with mostly whole-wheat flour, low-fat cheese, and pepperoni that has half as much sodium than typical Domino’s pepperoni.—Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 5 June 2025 Fans can rejoice in knowing that items like the Alley Special, with pepperoni, meatballs, sausage, green peppers, black olives, onions, mushrooms, and extra cheese, will return to the menu unscathed.—Colin Wrenn, Denver Post, 13 May 2025 Security guards working a party outside a mansion gave him $100 for delivering 10 pepperoni pizzas.—Chandler Rome, New York Times, 19 May 2025 Burchill had opened his window and left boxes of pepperoni pizza in his hotel room at the Fairmont Empress in Victoria, British Columbia.—Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pepperoni
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Etymology
Italian peperoni cayenne peppers, plural of peperone, augmentative of pepe pepper, from Latin piper — more at pepper
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