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[payst] / peɪst /




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The sites are dubbed "pink slime" after the fluorescent pink meat paste used as an additive by food manufacturers.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

Pesto is made here with basil, extra virgin olive oil, pine nuts, garlic and grated cheese, all ground to a thick paste.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

The vegetables should become deeply soft and jammy while retaining a little texture; you are not trying to cook them into a completely smooth paste.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

It means Dilworth at the Football Supporters Association is cautious about clubs simply seeking to "copy and paste from the men's game".

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

She saw a bowl of red paste that Grandmother had said was jam.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

"It's our most traditional dish here in Pachuca. If you don't have much time, there's always a pastes store around the corner," Hernandez says.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026

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

Leftover curry pastes, chipotles in adobo, gochujang-honey glazes, romesco, tamarind chutney—all of them freeze beautifully.

From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2025

I feel happy when Joy pastes a gold star in my notebook, although I think maybe part of the reason I am getting it is because Joy feels sorry for me.

From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar

At an army base in the Nepali town of Bidur, a key rescue hub, relatives crowded around lists of rescued people pasted on a wall.

From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026

Alexandra Parfitt, 46, a biostatistician, was disappointed to discover her 9-year-old daughter had copied and pasted an internet description of a “Peanuts” cartoon character into a school presentation on Google Slides.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026

Their faces are pasted on walls and lampposts across Mexico, and demonstrators regularly hoist banners demanding the return of loved ones whose names are memorialized in chants.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2026

Stern sent copy and pasted text of an ABC News article dated 2 October 2009 to Epstein titled Duchess of Debt?

From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2026

“I’ve heard of this book,” he whispered, “but I never thought…” He was talking like you would talk just before Mass. He opened the front page, looked at the sheet of music pasted in.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt

“I was copying and pasting from ChatGPT,” said Vo, who lives in San Francisco.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

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

While pasting the new “Virgencita” poster, she notices an older one of hers to the left — a portrait of transgender activist Marsha P. Johnson — hanging half ripped.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026

In Rome they romped to a 4-0 lead on the first morning by delivering an alternate shot pasting that the US never recovered from.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2025

They were pasting a huge colored poster to a signboard.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright


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