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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  

[pay] / 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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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

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

Rui Pei is a postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford Social Neuroscience Lab.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

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 L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

The United States notified Canada, however, that it would ban all imports of PEI fresh potatoes unless Canada took further action.

From Reuters ● Nov. 22, 2021

PEI, the smallest Canadian province, is the third-largest potato-producing province after Manitoba and Alberta, growing about 20% of the national harvest in 2020, according to Statistics Canada.

From Reuters ● Nov. 22, 2021

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

In the 18 clubs operated by PEI, he has encouraged individual managers to set their own motifs and has reduced the home-office take on revenues.

From Time Magazine Archive