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paste

[peyst] / peɪst /




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Pesto is made here with basil, extra virgin olive oil, pine nuts, garlic and grated cheese, all ground to a thick paste.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

To make the creamy pistachio-tahini paste, combine ¼ cup of pistachio butter with a quarter-teaspoon of tahini.

From Salon Jul. 20, 2026

During our Zoom, with the background carefully faded behind her wavy blond bob, she promises that she doesn’t just copy and paste her subjects and settings from what sells.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

A Plaid MS, Carrie Harper, called it a "copy and paste opinion piece".

From BBC Jul. 6, 2026

I found a tin of cornstarch and shook some into a teacup, added a little water, and made it into a paste.

From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm

"It's our most traditional dish here in Pachuca. If you don't have much time, there's always a pastes store around the corner," Hernandez says.

From BBC Jun. 2, 2026

And Thomas just copies and pastes that stuff right into his dissent.

From Slate May 15, 2026

Mr. Blum said he uses ChatGPT and Claude in a limited way: He pastes in drafts with the prompt “edit for grammar, usage and clarity.”

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 3, 2026

Leftover curry pastes, chipotles in adobo, gochujang-honey glazes, romesco, tamarind chutney—all of them freeze beautifully.

From Salon Jul. 15, 2025

She pastes a kind expression on her face.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

At an army base serving as a rescue hub in Bidur, relatives crowded around lists of rescued people pasted on a wall.

From Barron's Aug. 30, 2026

On Monday at the Nottingham Inquiry, mental health nurse Busayo Ajewole admitted her notes were at times lacking information, copied and pasted and fundamentally wrong.

From BBC Apr. 27, 2026

We carried the empty paper bag home with us on the plane, taking care not to rip it, and then pasted it into in our scrapbook.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 20, 2026

She stepped into the bathroom, rubbed some adhesive across her face, pasted on the fake beard, and colored her hair with gray paint she had bought at a costume shop.

From Slate Nov. 15, 2025

So for the next hour I wrote and cut and pasted a final plea to Mom.

From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez

Tired_Thumb looked up the name on a public records search website and shared the agent’s phone number in a comment, pasting the link to their source seconds later.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

A pasting at the hands of Paris Saint-Germain might have coloured their last European campaign but Inter got to that final by seeing off Bayern Munich and Barcelona in epic knockout ties.

From Barron's Feb. 24, 2026

While pasting the new “Virgencita” poster, she notices an older one of hers to the left — a portrait of transgender activist Marsha P. Johnson — hanging half ripped.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 10, 2026

This game is more about how Aston Villa respond to their defeat at Arsenal, because they took a bit of a pasting.

From BBC Jan. 2, 2026

There they all were now, the cream of the school, the lights and leaders of the senior class, with their high I.Q.’s and expensive shoes, as Brinker had said, pasting each other with snowballs.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles




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