decant
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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
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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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