post-exposure prophylaxis
Treatments like post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), which is most effective within 72 hours of possible exposure to HIV, can help prevent its spread and save lives. … However, access is limited, and time is of the essence.—
Alexis Calatayud et al.
Alexis Calatayud et al.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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This year’s event did have a little more pep to it than last year’s, when Oppenheimer swept the big awards, however.
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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
Expect to draw reliable pep out of this system, but substantial projects might be out of reach.
—PC Magazine, 10 Apr. 2025
This year’s event did have a little more pep to it than last year’s, when Oppenheimer swept the big awards, however.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2025
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 11 May. 2025.
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PEP
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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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