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Regardless of whether a pepperoni pizza will be sold in schools or the grocery store, its safety is overseen by the USDA.—Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2025 One of the many gifts of sobriety is realizing that ordering a Papa John’s pepperoni pizza with extra garlic sauce at two in the morning is not only unhealthy but a classic red flag.—John Devore, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2025 The pepperoni pizza with jalapeños and hot honey was nice, but was nothing exceptional.—Kyle Stokes, Axios, 25 Mar. 2025 There’s something for every eater, from pepperoni pizza to whole wheat rigatoni with flowering broccoli.—Katie Sweeney, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pepperoni
Word History
Etymology
Italian peperoni cayenne peppers, plural of peperone, augmentative of pepe pepper, from Latin piper — more at pepper
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