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soap

[sohp] / soʊp /


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After working in New York in theater and on soap operas, she came out to L.A. hoping to use television to increase her name recognition in theater.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

"Almost everything in our home is scrounged, and I never buy, for example, soap or toiletries or medical supplies, or shoes and clothes and tools and garden supplies," he says.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

But consumer staples tend to fare relatively well when the economy slows, as people continue to shop for items like soap, toothpaste and shampoo.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026

The maker of Irish Spring soap and Speed Stick deodorant posted a third-quarter profit of $751 million, or 94 cents a share, compared with $735 million, or 91 cents a share, a year earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

And she hit her forehead on the bathroom mirror as she washed the soiled pants in the sink without soap, because there wasn’t any.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

Diane Aitken, 45, a fan from Scotland, likens the werewolf- and vampire-themed microdramas she enjoys to 1980s US soaps Dallas or Dynasty "on steroids".

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

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 logged higher profit in the quarter after its digital business returned to growth for the first time in five years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Her early work includes roles in the 1990s on the soaps “One Life to Live” and “Guiding Light.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

The tourists’ rooms that we clean and, beyond them, the far more expensively appointed interiors in the soaps begin after a while to merge.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

“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

No. He had no cause to look at her like that, Milkman thought, and heaving himself upright in the tub, he soaped himself hurriedly.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

He worked six days a week, hosing down cars, soaping them up and vacuuming inside.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2025

Exuberant young men splashing around in a pool with one theatrically soaping himself as a crowd cheered.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2024

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

“She’s weak from the blerry flies. I suppose you’ll want to baptize the baby,” Dr. van Heerden said, soaping his hands as he prepared to deliver the calf.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer


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