pea
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The narrator of “The Behavior of the Hawkweeds” ruminates on her grandfather’s childhood encounters with Gregor Mendel, the monk whose experiments with pea plants laid the groundwork for modern genetics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 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
What then to do with the other three-quarters of the pea?
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
Outside, the couple leveled the once-dirt backyard, added pea gravel, built a pergola with a handyman and installed a firepit where they enjoy entertaining their friends.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026
I get an extra-large portion of pea soup and am headed back to Compartment E when Boggs intercepts me.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
Confounding the astronomical unlikeliness, we got along like two peas in a pod.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 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
The Inkom, Idaho, company sells kits people can use to plant broccoli, buckwheat, alfalfa, speckled peas and more in small plastic trays, harvesting the greens within days to maximize their nutrient content.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
And he could drop peas down and his pet would eat them and no one would ever know but Sam.
From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry
For travel updates follow @TSYalerts And pease, please DO NOT enter flood water- either by car or on foot.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 8, 2019
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
From then until "Teapot Dome" there was comparative pease.
From Time Magazine Archive
Theon was bent over a wooden bowl finishing the last of his own portion of pease porridge when a light touch on his shoulder made him drop his spoon.
From "A Dance with Dragons" 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
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
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
