marinate

No, I will take full accountability and marinate in my stupidity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026

"Sometimes a song needs to marinate for a year, six months, it can take some time," she says.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2025

It takes a little over an hour for “Nobu” to marinate long enough to approach a point of complexity, not exactly bitter but no longer cloyingly sweet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2025

I will typically use it to marinate flank steak, but recently I used it with my grilled chicken and stone fruit chutney, and it reminded me how this sauce really does go with everything.

From Seattle Times ● May 21, 2024

I unload the groceries, marinate the steaks, cook the rice, and set the table.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

Every origin story marinates in wishful thinking that haunts us to the end of our days.

From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2025

The deeply savory sun-dried tomato and basil vinaigrette marinates the chicken, to keep it tender when stir-fried, and doubles as a sauce for the orzo and feta.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 16, 2022

As sushi purveyors did before the age of refrigeration, he marinates some fish in soy and presses others beneath sheets of kelp.

From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2021

The pork marinates for three days in lemongrass, ginger, garlic and brown sugar.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 24, 2019

Now behold water-spouts vomiting as they rush over the pavements, and rubbish marinates in puddles that fill the holes scooped out of the macadam.

From Against the Grain by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

The app has boosted lesser-known businesses and sent tourists in droves to unconventional locations such as Zibo, a quiet industrial city in Shandong, after its cheap, marinated barbecue skewers went viral.

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

Extras: One of the things I love most about marinated beans is their restraint.

From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2026

It’s billed as different from “your average rib sandwich,” with ribs that have been hand-deboned, marinated in a proprietary barbecue-sauce blend with apple-cider vinegar, then slow-cooked for nine hours.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 29, 2026

The initial videos were made using ByteDance’s AI tools by a Chinese food company to promote its marinated duck.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026

He just showed up one Sunday with the stuff to make his special Korean ribs, which had to be marinated for three days—so I knew he was planning to stick around.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

In the classroom, trainees crowded around instructor Luo Duocheng as he demonstrated slicing a slab of beef, marinating it, and skewering the meat to form identical kebabs.

From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026

This isn’t Tom Brady marinating on an Eames chair for six weeks before deciding to give football another go.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

We’re marinating on some ideas to cook something up for them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2023

If you are marinating overnight — which is great in advance — you must do it in the refrigerator.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 22, 2023

I had fish marinating for dinner, with a salad and bread left over from the night before, so there was nothing to do there.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer