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pea

[pee] / pi /






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The actual track has been filled with pea gravel, designed to minimize noise from any reverberations.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 2026

Divided into smaller groups, we prepared butter chicken, green pea pulao and palak paneer, then sat down to enjoy the meal together.

From Salon Jun. 11, 2026

Protein makes up about a quarter of a pea, and pea protein has become an increasingly popular source of plant-based protein.

From BBC Jun. 4, 2026

For more than a century, biology has been guided by the principles of inheritance first described by Gregor Mendel through his famous pea plant experiments.

From Science Daily Jun. 1, 2026

She would invent little tiny radios the size of a green pea that people could carry around and stick in their ears.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

Confounding the astronomical unlikeliness, we got along like two peas in a pod.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

A red cartoon hunk of steak, a bronzed turkey, a few shrimp, a tub of unsweetened yogurt, an apple and a bag of frozen peas cascade alongside him.

From Salon Aug. 5, 2026

If you’re really worried, skip uncooked produce like salad mixes, berries, basil, and snap peas for the time being.

From Slate Jul. 17, 2026

In the past, foods including bagged salad mixes, fresh cilantro, fresh basil, raspberries, snow peas and scallions have been linked to cyclosporiasis.

From Barron's Jul. 17, 2026

Mendel, perhaps, was the original “anatomist” of the gene: in capturing the movement of information across generations of peas, he had described the essential structure of the gene as an indivisible corpuscle of information.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

This relief usually consisted of potted beef and pease pudding; items that, given the limited capacity for long-term food storage in the 19th century, had some chance of surviving the journey between islands.

From Time Sep. 27, 2017

Before you grow indignant, ask yourself this: do you weep at the cherry, a singular derived from the singular cheris; or at the pea, long ago conjured from the singular pease?

From The Guardian Mar. 25, 2016

When I realised Greggs no longer sold ham and pease pudding stotties I thought: 'Is this what it has come to?'

From The Guardian Oct. 27, 2010

Like pease porridge in the pot, the Louis-Conn $100-a-seat fiasco was nine days old.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was black bread and honeycakes and oaten biscuits; there were turnips and pease and beets, beans and squash and huge red onions; there were baked apples and berry tarts and pears poached in strongwine.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

He used to wear Flowers in his smock, gold-clocks and peasen; And spindle-fruit in hunting season.

From Reynard the Fox by John Masefield

The soil along the coast is not deep of earth, bringing forth abundantly peasen small, yet good feeding for cattle.

From Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland by Edward Hayes

Of the first-named picture he observed:— "Or crowding round one pool, from flowery shelves A group of damsels bowed the knee Over reflections solid as themselves And like as peasen be."

From The History of "Punch" by M. H. (Marion Harry) Spielmann




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