soap
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Lenz described seeing a young Panettiere “playing games” and navigating the set of the soap drama.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Beginning her career as a child actor, Panettiere was just four years old when she was cast on the popular US soap opera One Life to Live.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
A few years later, she was a regular on a soap opera, channeling her darkest fears into tears that would have adults heaping praise upon her.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Colgate-Palmolive, the toothpaste and soap maker, on July 31 reported a 3% decrease in North American net sales.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
Then there’s a channel entirely in Spanish playing what is surely a sappy soap opera.
From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone
Panettiere was also known for her work on soaps “One Life to Live” and “Guiding Light” and films “Remember the Titans,” “Bring It On: All or Nothing” and the “Scream” franchise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Far from seeming like a steely leader in a rigorous era, he instead recalls all those gentle, soft, pouty-lipped dreamboats who pop up interchangeably in young-adult soaps on the streaming services.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
The tile that they landed on has six layers of brighteners, soaps and stain and odor fighters that activate and interact with each other only when they get wet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
They’ve got beautiful stools, striped upholstering, but they also have, you know, soaps and again incense, and just cute things.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 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
He soaped and rubbed her until her skin squeaked and glistened like onyx.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
Set up an assembly line from soaping and scrubbing to rinsing to drying.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
Songul Yucesoy carefully washes her dishes, soaping the plates and cutlery before rinsing off the bubbles and laying them out to dry.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 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
He enumerates some pleasures of life on the outside — sleeping on comfortable sheets, soaping up a loofah sponge in the shower.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2020
Adam and Samuel came from the wash house, their hand and faces shining with water, and Samuel’s beard was fluffy after its soaping.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
