paste
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Other descriptions have included it being like a mix of anchovy paste and high-strength cod liver oil.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
During our Zoom, with the background carefully faded behind her wavy blond bob, she promises that she doesn’t just copy and paste her subjects and settings from what sells.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
Stir in flour, salt and pepper to create a paste that will help thicken your filling.
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2026
You can either copy and paste that directly into a chat box or read it out over the phone to a representative.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
I found a tin of cornstarch and shook some into a teacup, added a little water, and made it into a paste.
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
And Thomas just copies and pastes that stuff right into his dissent.
From Slate ● May 15, 2026
Mr. Blum said he uses ChatGPT and Claude in a limited way: He pastes in drafts with the prompt “edit for grammar, usage and clarity.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
"In Korea, the real foundation of our food is jang," he says, referring to fermented pastes and sauces such as doenjang, ganjang and gochujang.
From BBC ● Dec. 13, 2025
Other "butters", such as peanut and cashew butter, aren't strictly butters but pastes.
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2024
Helda, on May’s orders, kept the Korean foodstuffs down here, the earthenware jars of pickled vegetables and meats, the fermented seasoning pastes and sauces, strips of dried seafood.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
On Monday at the Nottingham Inquiry, mental health nurse Busayo Ajewole admitted her notes were at times lacking information, copied and pasted and fundamentally wrong.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026
We carried the empty paper bag home with us on the plane, taking care not to rip it, and then pasted it into in our scrapbook.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
She stepped into the bathroom, rubbed some adhesive across her face, pasted on the fake beard, and colored her hair with gray paint she had bought at a costume shop.
From Slate ● Nov. 15, 2025
On my first morning, I looked up at a coffee shop menu and saw a sticker of a Canadian flag pasted over my habitual order, an Americano.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2025
He can now see that it is, indeed, his own journal, open to a page with a card pasted onto it, printed with winged creatures crawling over a spoked wheel.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
Workers at the Pyroshine factory were now busy pasting wolf-themed packaging onto boxes to be shipped to the United States.
From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026
This game is more about how Aston Villa respond to their defeat at Arsenal, because they took a bit of a pasting.
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2026
The U.S. botched copying and pasting a relatively straightforward warship already in service in Europe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 2025
Some are nicknamed jumping genes because they literally jump around, copying and pasting themselves into different parts of our genome just as if they were still viral invaders.
From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2025
It was late in the evening when I finally finished reading and pasting the last article.
From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez
