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marinade

[mar-uh-nayd, mar-uh-nayd] / ˌmær əˈneɪd, ˈmær əˌneɪd /


VERB
marinate
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Antonyms
STRONGEST


VERB
pickle
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They also have water galore—a toxic, salty marinade that comes up alongside oil and which they plan to treat so it can be used to cool data centers and power plants.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

So, once I’m home, I’ll prep a chicken curry so it can sit in the marinade for a day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

One of the easiest ways to use it is as a marinade.

From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2026

It initially hit the right sweet, slightly piquant notes that al pastor meat should — but the flavor quickly dissipated because the marinade hadn’t soaked through the chicken chunks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026

I make my way through the crowd with another Styrofoam cup of the dreadful red marinade, trying not to feel left out.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

It’s packed with salt, acidity and concentrated olive flavor that can add depth to everything from marinades to bread dough.

From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026

One butcher said all his meat, marinades and spices had been taken away to be checked.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2025

Orrison, Lewis and their team on Friday were preparing two Duroc hogs for the competition, each one carefully injected with marinades and laid over a bed of butter and bacon.

From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2024

China Chilcano's chefs said the product behaved very similarly to conventional chicken and offered some improvements, like rapid absorption of marinades.

From Reuters ● Jul. 20, 2023

So they brought him forthwith nearly an hundred dishes of poultry besides other birds and brewises, fritters and cooling marinades.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Chipotle’s chicken al pastor, which is marinaded in morita peppers, ground achiote and pineapple, debuted in March 2023.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2024

Nothing screams "I Love You" more than enjoying a gut-destroying dinner of Southern-style ribs, marinaded in the scent of fellow sweat-soaked patrons from Augusta National.

From Golf Digest ● Mar. 13, 2017

Anwar picks a peshwari kebab of lamb marinaded in yoghurt and garlic.

From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2012

Welner said Khadr had been "steeped and marinaded in radical jihadism" among fellow captives at Guantanamo.

From Reuters ● Oct. 26, 2010

Stir it over the fire, mixing well till the sauce becomes brown, and then put in your marinaded pieces of rabbit.

From The Belgian Cookbook by Various

There is no law stating a maximum number of hours for which these pickles should remain marinading.

From Salon ● May 10, 2025

The artist’s adult-sized gingerbread house in one of the galleries will likely generate all manner of chatter, but the poignant works of video, assemblage and drawing will be worth marinading in too.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2019


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