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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

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

The plate that my pea risotto was served on was much larger than the serving of risotto itself.

From Salon ● Jun. 3, 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

He never noticed that the three children were pea green in the spots where they were not beet red from the sunburn.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

I tossed it with store-bought ravioli and shredded rotisserie chicken warmed in olive oil, put peas on the side, and waited for the part where I needed to fix something.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026

He shows us what is left of the peas and wheat crop at his 300-hectare site in Suffolk.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

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

Josie remembered her kindergarten teacher calling her and Max “two peas in a pod”—now Ivy and Josie were the two peas.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The ale was well brewed and there was pease porridge and bread for supper.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli

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

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


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