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soap

[sohp] / soʊp /


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I listened to that thing over and over again, until I spilled a bottle of soap in my tape deck and ruined it.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

The orange make-up could now be washed off with soap and water, the shoes were more comfortable and the chocolate river was no longer full of cigarette ends discarded by crew members.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

On Sunday, just outside the fenced-off green space, street vendors were selling everything from African fabrics to soap.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

Tune into a smartphone soap opera: Are we entering a new phase of television?

From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2026

Plastic wrapped around a tiny piece of soap.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

In social-media posts sponsored by Dove, people are layering its fragrant body washes, bar soaps and scrubs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

In those studies, the researchers developed approaches for converting other types of plastic waste into surfactants used in products such as soaps and detergents.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026

Her early work includes roles in the 1990s on the soaps “One Life to Live” and “Guiding Light.”

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

Near the tap there were a dozen pink and white soaps, shaped like swans and roses, resting in an ivory-tinted shell.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

“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

Then I soaped my entire body, head to toe, and rinsed off by swimming around for a couple laps.

From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña

He worked six days a week, hosing down cars, soaping them up and vacuuming inside.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2025

Set up an assembly line from soaping and scrubbing to rinsing to drying.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 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

Before eight in the evening, I was already in the shower cubicle attached to my room, soaping myself thoroughly, having thrown all my clothes in the laundry bag.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 7, 2019

For a while she simply stands there before tending to the shampooing of her hair, the soaping of her softening, slightly shrinking fifty-three-year-old body, which she must fortify each morning with calcium pills.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri




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