soak
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I had not dirtied anything requiring an overnight soak.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
People can also soak their clothing in cold water or apply an iced or chilled damp towel on their body.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
The deer eat fire-resilient chaparral and other native plants, making way for invasive annual grasses, which ignite more easily, increase erosion and leave less water to soak into aquifers, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
You can soak up Genoa’s distinctive atmosphere at any time, however, by walking through its medieval historic center, marked by narrow streets called caruggi, which can be less than 3 feet wide.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
So it would soak up all the toxins in our lives and save us.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
Battery storage soaks up excess electricity during sunny and windy days and releases the juice later when it is needed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Anything that adds ballast and soaks up the warm bits without overpowering them earns a spot here.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2025
That weak carbonic acid ultimately soaks into the soil, full of carbon dioxide.
From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2025
Hanley is a freak who soaks up the doubt that comes at him from fans who really don't want him at the heart of Scotland's defence.
From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2025
“It’s done this the last couple nights. Clouds up, soaks for about half an hour, then blows over.”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
As frontier AI labs soaked up the available compute, cloud providers moved to require multiyear contracts with upfront costs often as high as 30%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
He opens “Digger” lounging in a bed soaked with cat pee, tempting an elderly feline named Maggie to lick wet chow from his gnarled pinkie nail.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
Kosin and his family lifted their belongings once they saw the water level was higher than the canal retaining wall, but their ground floor was still left soaked.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
He says on the doorstep, voters are telling him "they're fed up with the crime, disorder. This borough is crime-ridden. It's soaked in crime."
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
The innards he washed, soaked in oak-bark water, and draped over a juniper bush to dry.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
The primary bathroom boasts a marble soaking tub, following the home’s elegant aesthetic.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
The Delafield Hotel is a charming boutique property with massive rooms, comfortable beds and bathrooms outfitted with Kohler rain showers and soaking hydrotherapy tubs.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
For a fighter who has never hidden her dislike of media interviews, there was something striking about the confidence with which she walked around the ring, microphone in hand, soaking up the final moments.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
The soaking and scamming of undergrads and grad students.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Others were soaking wet and half-drowned from swimming across ponds and creeks.
From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis
