marinate

No, I will take full accountability and marinate in my stupidity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026

For at least one more year, the Sparks have to marinate in their past mistakes and hope that their veterans can somehow lay a foundation for their future..

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2026

Just enough to let them marinate as they cooled.

From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2026

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

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2025

I unload the groceries, marinate the steaks, cook the rice, and set the table.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

A trained writer, meanwhile, marinates in speech from people who weren’t taught the nuances of lay vs. lie, or pedagogically hassled out of extraneous likes.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2022

He says he marinates his steak with sofrito and sazón, a spice mix containing achiote, a spice with an earthy, smoky flavor.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2021

As this happens, our culture marinates in the toxic assumption "that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake."

From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2021

Thomas Kail compared Mr. Rockwell to a jazz musician, who only makes surprising riffs after “he takes every scene and examines it and scrutinizes it and marinates in it.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2019

Now behold water-spouts vomiting as they rush over the pavements, and rubbish marinates in puddles that fill the holes scooped out of the macadam.

From Against the Grain by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)

The app has boosted lesser-known businesses and sent tourists in droves to unconventional locations such as Zibo, a quiet industrial city in Shandong, after its cheap, marinated barbecue skewers went viral.

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

It conjures something overly marinated, vaguely limp, sitting in the back of a deli case.

From Salon ● May 5, 2026

It’s billed as different from “your average rib sandwich,” with ribs that have been hand-deboned, marinated in a proprietary barbecue-sauce blend with apple-cider vinegar, then slow-cooked for nine hours.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 29, 2026

The initial videos were made using ByteDance’s AI tools by a Chinese food company to promote its marinated duck.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026

Here was an opportunity to make practical use of the theories in which he had marinated for years—and in the service of a fight against Fascism that he took seriously indeed.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

In the classroom, trainees crowded around instructor Luo Duocheng as he demonstrated slicing a slab of beef, marinating it, and skewering the meat to form identical kebabs.

From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026

This isn’t Tom Brady marinating on an Eames chair for six weeks before deciding to give football another go.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

One of my favorite uses is marinating white beans.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026

It’s helpful to have a framework, a structured environment, for marinating in stillness.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2025

I had fish marinating for dinner, with a salad and bread left over from the night before, so there was nothing to do there.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer