marinate
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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
I let the thought marinate for a few days, or I’ll write it down in my notes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025
Like I'll throw a grilled chicken — I’ll marinate, you know what’s a great marinade?
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2024
Ma had shown me how to marinate it with soya, garlic, and fermented black bean.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
A trained writer, meanwhile, marinates in speech from people who weren’t taught the nuances of lay vs. lie, or pedagogically hassled out of extraneous likes.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 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
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
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
Another announces, with delight, “I made these incredible marinated white beans and put them on toast.”
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 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
It’s clear that “Forbidden Fruits” director and co-writer Meredith Alloway has marinated in plenty of ’90s teen movies and the kitschy pop-culture ephemera of that era.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
The waitress brings a platter of the marinated meat and starts cooking it.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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
One of my favorite uses is marinating white beans.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026
Many people are numb or marinating in indignation and anger.
From Barron's ● Apr. 15, 2026
It’s helpful to have a framework, a structured environment, for marinating in stillness.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2025
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
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