peppy
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“They were to make me peppy during interviews,” she recalled.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 2026
As I set off, the shoes emitted a peppy clip-clop and a satisfying groan of distressed leather with each step.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026
Shares go for 84 times forward earnings on expectations of a peppy bounce back in earnings through the end of the decade.
From Barron's ● May 1, 2026
She’s known for somber songs, yet this one was almost peppy, with plush synthesizers and promises of eternal devotion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025
It’s an old Katy Perry song that’s peppy in an exhausting way.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
The peppier motor hustles the Maverick to 60 mph in just 6.4 seconds and returns a respectable 25-26 mpg in the EPA’s combined driving estimate.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 22, 2021
Then she switched into a drastically peppier tone for the taping: “Believe it or not, over five thousand of you have joined in the past few days, which is blowing my mind!”
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 10, 2018
This plant is just one of a list of age-old plants and herbal extracts that make people feel a bit peppier, a bit happier, a bit more relaxed.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 9, 2016
The Million Dollar Band’s version is peppier, more of a marching-band sound, compared to USC’s, which hews more closely to the original.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2016
"Thanks," said the judge, "a peppier brew From a fairer hand was never knew."
From Something Else Again by Adams, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce)
The peppiest single Joel ever made might get even closer to Motown’s classic Holland-Dozier-Holland sound than Phil Collins did a year earlier in his punctilious remake of the Supremes’ “You Can’t Hurry Love.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2025
And then there’s Van Ness, the quippiest, peppiest of the bunch.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 21, 2018
“Dolly” is surely the peppiest show on Broadway, world capital of pep, and the performers seem to be even more energized by the audience’s response than the first time I saw it.
From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2017
He’s the peppiest pessimist south of the Mason-Dixon line.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2017
Old friends from Spokane still recognize the happy-go-lucky Crosby approach which is transmitted to radio audiences in the jargon which keeps the Kraft Music Hall one of the peppiest shows on the air.
From Time Magazine Archive
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