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decant

[dih-kant] / dɪˈkænt /
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"We were so close again behind him, very tough to put the lap together with the wind. But managed to put a decant lap on the final run and happy with that."

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2025

I brew it in huge batches and decant it into a glass jug that looks vaguely like a science experiment.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2025

Some terrific directorial touches linger, such as when three characters decant olive oil in sync, the golden lighting and jazzy instrumentals heightening the sense that the trio has achieved a state of flow.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2023

I poured coffee grounds from a red can into a pot of boiling water, waited to decant cowboy coffee, and thought about how to lose the fox.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2022

Allow to settle and decant on to a filter.

From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer

She estimates her collection of decants — the insider term for 2-milliliter bottle samples, which she orders from the website DecantPlanet for between $4 and $12 — is in the hundreds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025

After brewing the coffee in a French press, Flynn decants it into a measuring cup and lets it rest for five minutes, allowing the sediment to fall to the bottom.

From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2022

Williams, the author of the story collection “A Selfie as Big as the Ritz,” decants her first novel into flights, like wine.

From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2019

A vast coach park at the site decants tourists who will often also take in Bath and Windsor on a day trip from London.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 8, 2019

After dinner he decants claret into his venerable person, and tells an old story; the company smile with innocent joy.

From Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series by George Robert Aberigh-Mackay

These once held olive oil imported from Spain, North Africa and the Middle East and were discarded here after the oil was decanted at a nearby port.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2025

If you're not serving the coffee immediately, César adds, it should be decanted from the French press and put in another vessel.

From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2023

Among those who left were Pat Hamid and her husband Abdul who were decanted from Dennison Point in 2011, a few months before the Olympics.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2022

Cereal and baking ingredients don’t need to be decanted or sorted by color.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2022

“You see,” he said, mumbling and with averted eyes, “I’m rather different from most people, I suppose. If one happens to be decanted different. . .”

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

More structured and more tannic than the Wapisa, it definitely benefited from an hour’s decanting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025

The anxious decanting of the container influencer points to a fear of scarcity or disorder.

From Slate ● Mar. 15, 2025

Klein is a proponent of decanting dry goods into containers and putting products in bins.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 14, 2023

"They can involve extra planning, sourcing, decisions, calculations, budgeting, ordering, carrying, storing and decanting —compared to making one grocery order a week and selecting from what is available."

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2022

“It is important to chill the vial prior to decanting, as the agent boils at room temperature.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss




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