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marinate

verb as in soak

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The Rams don’t have much time to marinate in the victory: the rival San Francisco 49ers are coming to town on Thursday night.

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"Sometimes a song needs to marinate for a year, six months, it can take some time," she says.

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Every origin story marinates in wishful thinking that haunts us to the end of our days.

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I let the thought marinate for a few days, or I’ll write it down in my notes.

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There was the chicken breast I marinated in lemon juice, rice vinegar and balsamic reduction — a trio I would now classify, gently, as a vinaigrette bloodbath.

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