marinate

You have to marinate it for a day and then clean it properly to make a sauce and simmer it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 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

Mark's choice leaves us to marinate on all the possible consequences of that and all the other action.

From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2025

Sitti said they would teach her how to sew and pick lentils and marinate olives and carry water from the spring on her head and speak Arabic.

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye

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

From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2025

He steps away to rest his tired back as the sickening result marinates.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 24, 2023

Matsuzaki marinates pork belly for several days, then presses and sears the meat, concentrating the flavor of the pork, which he slips into tender bao buns with carrot matchsticks, cucumber slices and jalapeño.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 21, 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

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

This is also where marinated beans diverge from bean salad, at least in my personal taxonomy.

From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2026

The marinated and charbroiled chicken shawarma—which Winnebago drivers can order in a party-platter size for $89.99—is a highlight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 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

My legs screamed from a night and day of ache and stretch marinated in old adrenaline and scabbed with tree bark cuts.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

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

It’s helpful to have a framework, a structured environment, for marinating in stillness.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2025

After marinating, you will want to set some aside for an easy dip or salad dressing.

From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2024

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