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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 Inspectors typically visit facilities where frozen pizza is topped with pepperoni at least once a day—inspectors are also present at the slaughterhouse where the pig is butchered and the plant where the actual pepperoni is made.—Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2025 An Expert Weighs In Keeping Desserts with Cream Cheese Frosting on the Counter
There was once an era when anything belonged on grandma’s counter, from leftover sweet tea to desserts containing dairy to last night’s pepperoni pizza.—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 21 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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