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EnoTrans focused on “overcustomization” by Sound Transit to slake community demands, and the average five-year planning phase.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2023

For what would have been the price of a ticket to the movies, customers also got bottomless soda refills to help slake what many expected would be a vengeful thirst from eating all that popcorn.

From Reuters ● Nov. 28, 2022

Appeasement — the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia in an attempt to slake Hitler’s appetite for conquest — ordained a dark future.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2022

That left me to slake my pie lust whenever one turned up at church potlucks or extended family gatherings.

From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2022

We slake our thirst, let the warm water pour over our itching bodies.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

The lake that slakes the thirst of 40 million people in cities, farms and tribes across seven Southwestern states is down to about 30% of capacity.

From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2022

Zero Dark Thirty slakes a thirst for vengeance and leaves an aftertaste of gall.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 18, 2013

Hungry, he munches a sandwich, first food in 33 hours, slakes his dry throat from the still half-filled canteen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Orange juice from National Juice Corp. slakes their thirst.

From Time Magazine Archive

The smallest flower that slakes her thirst   In the dews of the early morn, Is as great as the stars in heaven above,   The greatest that ever was born.

From Love or Fame; and Other Poems by Fannie Isabel Sherrick

But betel chew—a mixture of areca nuts, betel leaves and slaked lime—is entirely different from datura.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025

Roman concrete consisted of a mixture of a white powder known as slaked lime, small particles and rock fragments called tephra ejected by volcanic eruptions, and water.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 5, 2023

How much heat, in kilojoules, is associated with the production of 1 ton of slaked lime?

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

Here is hanger steak, rugged on the outside and blushing within, slaked with house-made sriracha.

From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2018

Once he’d slaked the thirst, he sat up and looked around.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

Trainees practiced slaking lime, sieving, mixing and preparing mortar while working on the gate.

From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2023

When it comes to slaking Southern California’s colossal thirst for water, more and more local governments are searching their own sewer lines for a solution.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2022

Depending on the source, you will hear that the Ogallala Aquifer slaking the huge cattle feedlots from Amarillo to Dodge City will be drunk dry in as few as 20 years.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 19, 2018

But the truth didn’t shake my faith in Oly pride, which bubbles up like the artesian well water that has been slaking Olympian thirsts for centuries.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 2018

Shells are sometimes ground, and used without burning; this is hardly advisable, as they cannot be made so fine as by burning and slaking.

From The Elements of Agriculture A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools by George E. (George Edwin) Waring