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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
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Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 24 May 2024
Only now, as an adult, this blonde-wood, rice-steam, white-musk essence puts a soothingly youthful pep in your step.
—Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 16 May 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?
—David Axelrod, CNN, 1 Apr. 2023
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Noun
For the pep band members and directors who will also descend upon CFG Bank Arena, there’s a loftier comparison.
—Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 24 May 2024
Only now, as an adult, this blonde-wood, rice-steam, white-musk essence puts a soothingly youthful pep in your step.
—Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 16 May 2024
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.
—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?
—David Axelrod, CNN, 1 Apr. 2023
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“Pep.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pep. Accessed 6 Jun. 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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