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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
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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
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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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