marinate
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Forget everything else about Thursday’s match against Turkey at SoFi Stadium and marinate on that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
The secret to summer beans, at least in my opinion, is to marinate them.
From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2026
No, I will take full accountability and marinate in my stupidity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026
"Sometimes a song needs to marinate for a year, six months, it can take some time," she says.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2025
Ma had shown me how to marinate it with soya, garlic, and fermented black bean.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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As sushi purveyors did before the age of refrigeration, he marinates some fish in soy and presses others beneath sheets of kelp.
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2021
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
The pork marinates for three days in lemongrass, ginger, garlic and brown sugar.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 24, 2019
Tandia, aided by just one other chef, makes everything herself in the tiny kitchen, and when something’s out for the day—like Calypso jerk-chicken wings with pineapple relish, which she marinates each morning—it’s out.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 19, 2018
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 J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
Dobbertin, who spent years in Thailand, created her own crunchwrap featuring a tortilla wrapped around marinated chicken in a khao soi coconut curry with avocado basil ranch and crisp wheat noodles for added crunch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
In summer, mine is a pan of roasted red onion, red pepper, squash and eggplant, marinated while warm in olive oil, herbs and a splash of red wine vinegar.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
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’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
Her very special marinated goose, smoked turkey, and honey-glazed ham and all the trimmings made the base of a meal that everybody contributed to.
From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals
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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
Do any marinating in the refrigerator, not on the countertop — it’s a myth that acidic marinades kill bacteria.
From Seattle Times ● May 27, 2024
We’re marinating on some ideas to cook something up for them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2023
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
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