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Examples of pep in a Sentence
Noun
The young teacher was full of pep.
the students always display considerably more pep during the weeks immediately prior to the holidays
Verb
the music at the party pepped everyone up
Recent Examples on the Web
Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Aug. 2024
With a base price of just under $74K, our long range tester boasted 280 miles on a full charge, and had plenty of pep in its step.
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Marc D Grasso, Hartford Courant, 27 July 2024
Ali Faccenda, Travel + Leisure, 9 June 2023
And will baseball purists like me, stubborn in our ways, embrace the rule changes that Epstein and baseball’s poobahs are installing to pep up the game for a new generation?
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David Axelrod, CNN, 1 Apr. 2023
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Noun
Ahead of panel, a pep squad pumped up the crowd, while fans were handed light-up bracelets and envelopes with magician David Blaine’s logo on it and featuring a deck of cards (more on that later).
—Verb
There’s something calming and refreshing about spritzing a fine, barely-there mist with a breath of delicious scent that feels incredible, especially in the spring and summer when temperatures are hotter, and the sun is stronger or after a long flight to pep me up before day one of a trip.
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Noun
short for pepper
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“Pep.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pep. Accessed 19 Aug. 2024.
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PEP
abbreviation2
post-exposure prophylaxis
Although fatal if untreated, human rabies can be prevented through post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), which involves a course of vaccination and immunoglobulin administered immediately after exposure.—
Eunha Shim et al., Vaccine
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