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pepper

[pep-er] / ˈpɛp ər /














VERB
season
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK
cook plain






Example Sentences

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Hot pepper sauce in Caribbean cuisine is as pervasive as ketchup in the US.

From BBC • May 31, 2026

“The headline shouldn’t be that Andy Kim has been pepper sprayed,” she told me.

From Slate • May 29, 2026

Whether the substance was tear gas — which, incidentally, is a powder, not a gas — or pepper spray is unclear.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026

I liked the sausage and kale and look forward to making her blistered Jimmy Nardello pepper pizzas this summer.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

Similar ecological disasters occurred on almost every one of the thousands of islands that pepper the Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Arctic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari




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