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Employees, residents and their families have been peppering Stuart Almer, the home’s chief executive, with questions.

From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2020

Since an earthquake swarm began on 16 August, Icelandic scientists have been peppering the region with additional seismic and global-positioning instruments to capture just such an event.

From Nature • Aug. 22, 2014

Scots phrases have been peppering speeches by both the Yes and No camps ahead of the referendum on 18 September.

From BBC • Jul. 3, 2014

For the past three weeks, gunbugs have been peppering targets along Camp Perry's two-mile firing line�nearly 1,000 of them at a time.

From Time Magazine Archive

And all these nice people who have been peppering us with shot thought we were the dynamiters.

From The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)