Pei
noun
I(eoh) M(ing) 1917–2019, U.S. architect, born in China.
Pei
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[pey]
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P.E.I.
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Pei
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/ peɪ /
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PEI
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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
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
“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
By contrast, plurality systems have never seen anything like the performance by the P.E.I.
From Salon ● May 1, 2019
Money was no plentiful thing on a P.E.I. farm in 1840.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
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
"We do know that the damage is very extensive, quite likely the worst we have ever seen," Dennis King, PEI premier, told reporters on Saturday.
From Reuters ● Sep. 25, 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
Prince Edward Island — or PEI, as the locals call it — is also home to one of Canada’s most famous beaches, the Singing Sands in Basin Head Provincial Park.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2017
As a result, PEI is saddled with businesses ranging from modeling agencies and limousine services to bar trinkets, for which it is only now beginning to develop a coherent marketing strategy.
From Time Magazine Archive
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