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[pep-ee] / ˈpɛp i /


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It also had a slick five-speed manual transmission, peppy engine and nimble steering.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026

As I set off, the shoes emitted a peppy clip-clop and a satisfying groan of distressed leather with each step.

From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026

Shares go for 84 times forward earnings on expectations of a peppy bounce back in earnings through the end of the decade.

From Barron's ● May 1, 2026

“It looks and feels genuinely premium both inside and out, and a smooth ride and peppy powertrain make it nice to drive too,” Edmunds’s Counts told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 7, 2026

She often told an outward lie, willing herself to be peppy in church, at school, using positive affirmation, which turns out not to be at all the same thing as telling the truth.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

Then she switched into a drastically peppier tone for the taping: “Believe it or not, over five thousand of you have joined in the past few days, which is blowing my mind!”

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 10, 2018

This plant is just one of a list of age-old plants and herbal extracts that make people feel a bit peppier, a bit happier, a bit more relaxed.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 9, 2016

The Million Dollar Band’s version is peppier, more of a marching-band sound, compared to USC’s, which hews more closely to the original.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2016

She’s also held onto her Southern accent in a way the peppier Allison hasn’t.

From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2012

"Thanks," said the judge, "a peppier brew From a fairer hand was never knew."

From Something Else Again by Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce) Adams

The peppiest single Joel ever made might get even closer to Motown’s classic Holland-Dozier-Holland sound than Phil Collins did a year earlier in his punctilious remake of the Supremes’ “You Can’t Hurry Love.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2025

And then there’s Van Ness, the quippiest, peppiest of the bunch.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 21, 2018

“Dolly” is surely the peppiest show on Broadway, world capital of pep, and the performers seem to be even more energized by the audience’s response than the first time I saw it.

From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2017

The album’s peppiest song, “What You Need,” matches a track that sounds like foot-stamping, freeze-dried Motown to a vocal that flaunts its electronic warbles.

From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2016

Old friends from Spokane still recognize the happy-go-lucky Crosby approach which is transmitted to radio audiences in the jargon which keeps the Kraft Music Hall one of the peppiest shows on the air.

From Time Magazine Archive




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