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• Pei
  Pei

  noun

  I(eoh) M(ing) 1917–2019, U.S. architect, born in China.
• P.E.I.
  P.E.I.

  abbreviation

  Prince Edward Island.
• PEI
  PEI

  abbreviation

  Prince Edward Island

Pei

¹ American  

[pey] / peɪ /

noun

1. I(eoh) M(ing) 1917–2019, U.S. architect, born in China.

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P.E.I. ² American  

abbreviation

1. Prince Edward Island.

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Pei ¹ British  

/ peɪ /

noun

1. I ( eoh ) M ( ing ). born 1917, US architect, born in China. His buildings include the E wing of the National Museum of Art, Washington DC (1978), a glass and steel pyramid at the Louvre, Paris (1989), and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland, USA (1995)

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PEI ² British  

abbreviation

1. Prince Edward Island

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Pei P.E.I. PEI

Tan Pei, who works in advertising and booked the robot to clean her Beijing flat, said she had chosen the service because she was interested to "see what it could do".

From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026

Deng also crushed intraparty democracy, Pei said, with only Zhao Ziyang—the reform-minded party secretary who was placed under house arrest after opposing the Tiananmen crackdown in 1989—daring to experiment with it briefly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

In total, Ajinomoto is recalling nearly 37 million pounds of food sold under the Kroger, Ling Ling, Tai Pei and Trader Joe’s labels, as well as under its house Ajinomoto brand, according to the statement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2026

For more than ten years, Jeffrey Shaman and colleagues, including Sen Pei, have worked to improve methods for tracking and simulating the spread of infectious diseases such as influenza and COVID-19.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 7, 2026

MGF Oil Corporation also announced that it was entering into a venture to build a forty- story-plus world-class luxury hotel to be designed by I. M. Pei.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

While bones are a relatively rare find on the island, remnants of wrecks show up regularly, Professor MacDonald, who used to work for the P.E.I.

From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2024

“Anne represents the essence of P.E.I. to us and put P.E.I. on the global map,” the couple wrote.

From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2022

“The devastation looks to be beyond anything we have witnessed,” said P.E.I.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 24, 2022

Mussels from Canada’s Prince Edward Island, sometimes labeled P.E.I., are excellent, as are Penn Cove mussels grown off Whidbey Island in the Puget Sound off the coast of Washington state.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 29, 2020

"And old P.E.I. is the loveliest province in it and Four Winds the loveliest spot in P.E.I.," laughed Anne, looking adoringly out over the sunset splendour of glen and harbour and gulf.

From Rainbow Valley by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

PEI, the smallest province, produced one-fifth of Canada's potatoes last year, according to Statistics Canada, much of which it exports to the United States.

From Reuters ● Sep. 26, 2022

Many PEI dairy farmers lost power, shutting down milking systems that run on electricity, said Donald Killorn, executive director of PEI Federation of Agriculture.

From Reuters ● Sep. 26, 2022

But the electoral strategy of the party in PEI might also portend a shift in thinking about how to court a wary electorate.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 22, 2019

Curiously, the PEI answer to cold weather is ice cream.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2017

Lownes is also changing PEI in other ways.

From Time Magazine Archive