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decant

[dih-kant] / dɪˈkænt /
VERB
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A previous report from 2022 suggested that a full decant could cost £7bn-£13bn with the building entirely vacated for between 12 and 20 years.

From BBC Jan. 3, 2026

But here’s the little trick that makes it feel thoughtful rather than “I just grabbed this on the way in”: decant it.

From Salon Dec. 2, 2025

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

Miss Recompense was about to decant some of her preparations.

From A Little Girl in Old Boston by Douglas, Amanda Minnie

Less than a week after my half-hour text conversation with Dorn, a small package arrives at my door with decants of her eight selections.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 5, 2025

After brewing the coffee in a French press, Flynn decants it into a measuring cup and lets it rest for five minutes, allowing the sediment to fall to the bottom.

From Seattle Times May 11, 2022

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

A vast coach park at the site decants tourists who will often also take in Bath and Windsor on a day trip from London.

From The Guardian Feb. 8, 2019

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 Aberigh-Mackay, George Robert

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

The milky white liquor is decanted into a copper kettle, made to be poured into copper rice bowls, as a nod to its history as a farmer's alcohol commonly brewed at home with rice.

From Salon Apr. 8, 2023

Among those who left were Pat Hamid and her husband Abdul who were decanted from Dennison Point in 2011, a few months before the Olympics.

From BBC Jul. 8, 2022

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

From Washington Post Jul. 5, 2022

He brought out a bowl and decanted a slow blob of pine pitch into it.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

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

This is controversial, I know, but I am in favor of decanting pantry items into glass jars.

From Salon Apr. 6, 2023

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

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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