marinate

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026

Just enough to let them marinate as they cooled.

From Salon ● Feb. 18, 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

Koffi let the word marinate in her head.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

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

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 24, 2023

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

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

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

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

People may want to quibble with me about this, but I believe marinated beans occupy a category adjacent to, yet ontologically distinct from, bean salad.

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

She got up in the morning to fix breakfast and pack a lunch for her husband, then marinated a leg of lamb with wine and garlic.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2025

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