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marinade

[mar-uh-nayd, mar-uh-nayd] / ˌmær əˈneɪd, ˈmær əˌneɪd /


VERB
marinate
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STRONGEST


VERB
pickle
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To make the protein pop, Conagra designed a custom marinade and added grill marks to the chicken breast slices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

So, once I’m home, I’ll prep a chicken curry so it can sit in the marinade for a day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

It initially hit the right sweet, slightly piquant notes that al pastor meat should — but the flavor quickly dissipated because the marinade hadn’t soaked through the chicken chunks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026

If time allows, an overnight rest yields the fullest flavor, but a brief marinade will also do the trick.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2025

I wrapped potatoes in foil and stuck them in the oven to bake, covered a steak in marinade and balanced it on top of a carton of eggs in the fridge.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer

It’s packed with salt, acidity and concentrated olive flavor that can add depth to everything from marinades to bread dough.

From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026

One butcher said all his meat, marinades and spices had been taken away to be checked.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2025

Orrison, Lewis and their team on Friday were preparing two Duroc hogs for the competition, each one carefully injected with marinades and laid over a bed of butter and bacon.

From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2024

China Chilcano's chefs said the product behaved very similarly to conventional chicken and offered some improvements, like rapid absorption of marinades.

From Reuters ● Jul. 20, 2023

When made of carrots, bananas, chicken, palm-cabbage, etc. and sweetened, they are called marinades.

From Two Years in the French West Indies by Lafcadio Hearn

Chipotle’s chicken al pastor, which is marinaded in morita peppers, ground achiote and pineapple, debuted in March 2023.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2024

I remember dum biryani as a multi-day affair, involving meat marinaded in spices, then soaked in yoghurt and cooked slowly, underneath a pastry lid.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 1, 2017

Nothing screams "I Love You" more than enjoying a gut-destroying dinner of Southern-style ribs, marinaded in the scent of fellow sweat-soaked patrons from Augusta National.

From Golf Digest ● Mar. 13, 2017

Anwar picks a peshwari kebab of lamb marinaded in yoghurt and garlic.

From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2012

It is flaked and marinaded in oil and vinegar seasoned well with pepper and salt.

From Twenty-four Little French Dinners and How to Cook and Serve Them by Cora Moore

There is no law stating a maximum number of hours for which these pickles should remain marinading.

From Salon ● May 10, 2025

The artist’s adult-sized gingerbread house in one of the galleries will likely generate all manner of chatter, but the poignant works of video, assemblage and drawing will be worth marinading in too.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2019


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