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peppy

[pep-ee] / ˈpɛp i /


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“They were to make me peppy during interviews,” she recalled.

From MarketWatch Jun. 26, 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

It was everything I’d remembered—deliciously peppy and cocoa-flavored, authentically Choc-O-Mint.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 4, 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

I can hear lots of voices and shoes squeaking through the hallway, then peppy guitar sounds and Brie singing a hello song.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

The peppier motor hustles the Maverick to 60 mph in just 6.4 seconds and returns a respectable 25-26 mpg in the EPA’s combined driving estimate.

From Seattle Times Dec. 22, 2021

Apple, having to play an un-actorly personality, is somewhat too mannered for the part, at first forcing Blackwell’s deadpan humor into the ensemble’s peppier cadence.

From New York Times Aug. 17, 2021

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

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

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

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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