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The staff had about a week to prepare a cut of meat that ideally needed a week to marinate and cook.

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026

“It’s better to still marinate the Russians,” Alexander Gabuev, director of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, said of China’s approach to the negotiations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

For at least one more year, the Sparks have to marinate in their past mistakes and hope that their veterans can somehow lay a foundation for their future..

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2026

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

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2025

Koffi let the word marinate in her head.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

Make the acar: While the beef marinates, in a small bowl, using a fork, stir together the vinegar, sugar and salt.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2021

He says he marinates his steak with sofrito and sazón, a spice mix containing achiote, a spice with an earthy, smoky flavor.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2021

Thomas Kail compared Mr. Rockwell to a jazz musician, who only makes surprising riffs after “he takes every scene and examines it and scrutinizes it and marinates in it.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2019

Tandia, aided by just one other chef, makes everything herself in the tiny kitchen, and when something’s out for the day—like Calypso jerk-chicken wings with pineapple relish, which she marinates each morning—it’s out.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 19, 2018

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

Dobbertin, who spent years in Thailand, created her own crunchwrap featuring a tortilla wrapped around marinated chicken in a khao soi coconut curry with avocado basil ranch and crisp wheat noodles for added crunch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

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

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

After securing our marinated tofu nachos and poke bowl, my wife and I sat down among other guests.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026

The waitress brings a platter of the marinated meat and starts cooking it.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

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’ve spent the past couple decades marinating in cooking shows, food podcasts, restaurant documentaries, TikTok pantry tours — an endless syllabus of how things ought to look and taste.

From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2023

The ground beef was marinating in so much lard it looked as if it were encased in Jell-O.

From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben