peanut butter

noun

: a creamy food made from peanuts

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Price increases should not be spread equally across all customers like peanut butter on a slice of bread. Steve Banker, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025 Energy storage is the peanut butter to the chocolate of renewable energy, making all the best traits about clean energy even better and balancing out some of its downsides. Umair Irfan, Vox, 21 Apr. 2025 The peanut butter took a few more swipes, but was completely gone—no sticky residue left behind at all—after three or four passes. Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Apr. 2025 In September 2022, the Cape Wildlife Center in Barnstable, Massachusetts, announced on Facebook that a local homeowner spotted a raccoon with a peanut butter jar stuck over its head and alerted authorities. Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 18 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for peanut butter

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“Peanut butter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/peanut%20butter. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.

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peanut butter

noun
: a paste made chiefly of ground roasted peanuts
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