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
Gabriela Jaquez made sure to marinate in this moment, bouncing gleefully toward half-court while her teammates formed a joyous mob.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2025
Like I'll throw a grilled chicken — I’ll marinate, you know what’s a great marinade?
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2024
Koffi let the word marinate in her head.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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
As this happens, our culture marinates in the toxic assumption "that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake."
From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2021
Prime marinates the chicken in allspice and habanero before smoking the wings over pimento wood and grilling them to order.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 12, 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
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
First, start with a peak-season beefsteak, its innards scooped and marinated in a bit of salt.
From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2026
The table filled up with olives, purple marinated turnips, plates of baba ghanouj and hummus, and hot flat breads, even before the real lunch came.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
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
One of my favorite uses is marinating white beans.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026
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
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