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decant

[dih-kant] / dɪˈkænt /
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Lord Hain is firmly behind a full decant, arguing that previous reports have found it to be the cheaper option.

From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2026

So don’t let the modest price fool you — crack open the screw cap a few hours before dinner, or better yet, decant it and let it come to life while you cook.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2023

I poured coffee grounds from a red can into a pot of boiling water, waited to decant cowboy coffee, and thought about how to lose the fox.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2022

“We have solutions that we know will decant the system,” she said.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 18, 2022

To taste the tasted, and at each return Less tasteful? o’er our palates to decant Another vintage? strain a flatter year, 340 Through loaded vessels, and a laxer tone?

From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Edward Young

She estimates her collection of decants — the insider term for 2-milliliter bottle samples, which she orders from the website DecantPlanet for between $4 and $12 — is in the hundreds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025

Klein’s husband decants the mixed nuts, and her 2-year-old daughter likes to put her snacks in the bins when they get home from the grocery store.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 14, 2023

Williams, the author of the story collection “A Selfie as Big as the Ritz,” decants her first novel into flights, like wine.

From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2019

Only 20% of our properties are residential, but we're dealing with a growing number of housing estate "decants".

From The Guardian ● Jul. 22, 2013

After dinner he decants claret into his venerable person, and tells an old story; the company smile with innocent joy.

From Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series by George Robert Aberigh-Mackay

These once held olive oil imported from Spain, North Africa and the Middle East and were discarded here after the oil was decanted at a nearby port.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2025

In others - where the building material has been found to be at risk of failure - classrooms have been closed and pupils decanted to alternative buildings.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2023

I have decanted a baby into a proper container for a walk.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 5, 2022

A bottle that has been left open overnight or has been decanted has gotten a lot more air than one that was opened and immediately re-corked.

From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2022

By the time they were decanted the embryos had a horror of cold.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

More structured and more tannic than the Wapisa, it definitely benefited from an hour’s decanting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025

The anxious decanting of the container influencer points to a fear of scarcity or disorder.

From Slate ● Mar. 15, 2025

Unfiltered Port forms a sediment, or crust, in the bottle, requiring decanting into … well … decanters, allowing oxygen to mix with the Port while the sediment is left in the bottle.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 16, 2022

"They can involve extra planning, sourcing, decisions, calculations, budgeting, ordering, carrying, storing and decanting —compared to making one grocery order a week and selecting from what is available."

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2022

Moving carefully, I ran through the decanting procedure in my head, making sure I hadn’t forgotten anything.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss


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