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as in to sprinkle
to mark with small spots especially unevenly
spilled flour peppered the kitchen floor
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Recent Examples of pepper
Employees pepper him with questions about The Boys and Companion, but Quaid doesn’t mind.
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Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 4 Feb. 2025
Today Chinese and American users continue to pepper each other with basic questions, aided by RedNote’s new translation tool.
—Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Jan. 2025
Despite the easy ride, Trump still peppered the conversation with a mixture of falsehoods that Newsweek's Fact Check team has assessed.
—John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
With the dust settling on last week's 5-2 Spanish Super Cup final loss to FC Barcelona in Jeddah, the build up to the Las Palmas fixture had been peppered by a back and forth between Simeone and his Madrid counterpart Carlo Ancelotti.
—Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
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Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 4 Feb. 2025
Today Chinese and American users continue to pepper each other with basic questions, aided by RedNote’s new translation tool.
—Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Jan. 2025
Despite the easy ride, Trump still peppered the conversation with a mixture of falsehoods that Newsweek's Fact Check team has assessed.
—John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
With the dust settling on last week's 5-2 Spanish Super Cup final loss to FC Barcelona in Jeddah, the build up to the Las Palmas fixture had been peppered by a back and forth between Simeone and his Madrid counterpart Carlo Ancelotti.
—Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pepper
Verb
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But those perfect plants don’t grow that way without assistance; they are sprayed routinely with fungicides and insecticides, especially organophosphates, which kill insects by interfering with their nervous systems.—
Maryn McKenna,
Scientific American,
13 Feb. 2025
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Other footage from inside the mall showed damaged walls in the aftermath of the blast, with water spraying from broken pipes.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN,
13 Feb. 2025
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The concept of Section 31 was sprinkled into the later seasons.—
Angelica Jade Bastién,
Vulture,
7 Feb. 2025
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Brush with milk and sprinkle with additional sugar, if desired.—
Kay Johnson,
Twin Cities,
6 Feb. 2025
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Inside the cafe area, farmhouse tables are flanked by an open kitchen dotted with cookbooks and produce.—
USA TODAY,
USA TODAY,
13 Feb. 2025
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The Canyon de Chelly National Monument, on the Navajo Nation in northeastern Arizona, encompasses 83,000-odd acres of sandstone peaks and plateaus towering above waterways dotted with pines, junipers, aspens and cottonwoods.—
Alastair Lee Bitsóí,
Smithsonian Magazine,
12 Feb. 2025
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“Pepper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pepper. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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