soap
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I was cast as an understudy on the soap opera “One Life to Live.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
She got her chance in 1997 after quitting her role as builder's apprentice Beth Brennan in Aussie soap Neighbours.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
At the Nuwakot shelter, an AFP reporter saw workers from the United Nations Population Fund distributing "dignity kits" containing sanitary pads, soap, underwear and other basic personal-care items to women.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
“This is Me” also depicts her mother, former soap actress Lesley Vogel, as demanding her daughter’s absolute best at every step in her career and leaving her with no alternative path.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026
In our modern civilizations, we don’t really think of bathing with soap and water as being gendered.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
In those studies, the researchers developed approaches for converting other types of plastic waste into surfactants used in products such as soaps and detergents.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026
The soaps and fragrances retailer said Wednesday it now expects annual adjusted earnings per share to be $2.60 to $2.80, up from prior guidance of $2.40 and $2.65.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Far from seeming like a steely leader in a rigorous era, he instead recalls all those gentle, soft, pouty-lipped dreamboats who pop up interchangeably in young-adult soaps on the streaming services.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
On the March 8 episode, Oliver said he was jealous of celebrities such as Katy Perry, Snoop Dogg and Smokey Robinson who would pop up on various soaps.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
The woman kept song sparrows in small wicker cages and gave Liyana two fat olive oil soaps to take home to her mother, too.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
“In the stables, the Queen’s horses were again at the ready, coats groomed, saddles and bridles soaped and stirrups polished,’’ Dimbleby wrote.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 11, 2022
Rhoda soaped a washcloth and began to scrub beneath the folds of her daughter’s skin.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2015
Actually, according to the Post, he “took some large metal pans that did not appear to be dirty, soaped them up and rinsed them…as the cameras clicked and the TV cameras rolled.”
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2012
The tune "Sticky Situation," for instance, mushrooms into the spectacle of a half-dozen boys getting their mouths soaped by moms.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 10, 2010
Don’t know if I soaped up or not.
From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
He worked six days a week, hosing down cars, soaping them up and vacuuming inside.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2025
Set up an assembly line from soaping and scrubbing to rinsing to drying.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
Doing it while a shower is running and then soaping up, thus creating a steamy-sudsy environment, would be even better for masking the odors your body produces.
From Slate ● May 25, 2020
A month earlier, before Molly had come forward with her grievance, Hal had been soaping her empty lunch containers in the newsroom kitchenette when she’d been spotted by Petra, the new V.P. of programming.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 20, 2018
For a while she simply stands there before tending to the shampooing of her hair, the soaping of her softening, slightly shrinking fifty-three-year-old body, which she must fortify each morning with calcium pills.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
