Definition of soy
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: a brown liquid sauce made by subjecting beans (such as soybeans) to long fermentation and to digestion in brine
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Examples of soy in a Sentence
His book promotes the health benefits of soy.
The recipe calls for two tablespoons of soy.
Recent Examples of soy from the Web
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The drop biscuits are good—moist and warm—and there's a thick, delicious, and pretty convincing vegan chocolate-peanut butter milkshake made from soy milk, dates, cocoa, and maca root.
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Donaldson's seen decreased erosion and improved yields of corn and soy.
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The organization, which advocates non-dairy alternatives such as soy milk, has approached Publix, so far without luck, about using its clout as a buyer to impose animal-welfare standards.
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Many plants are equally dependent on microbes: peas, clover, soy, and beans have nodules on their roots that host bacteria, fixing nitrogen from the air in the plant.
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Make sure to have some milk (or soy milk) with this one.
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More: Cockroach crawled inside sleeping woman's ear, tormenting her for nine days Ashley May is a lactose-intolerant writer who will stick to soy milk over bug varieties.
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Drinks: The menu of $9 smoothies includes a classic blend of banana, mango and almond milk, and the Green Goodness, which features kiwi, spinach, cucumber and soy milk.
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Villa Rica’s nikkei ceviche brought the flair of soy, sesame and fried strands of leek to tuna marinated in playfully acidic leche de tigre.
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Origin and Etymology of soy
Japanese shōyu
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First Known Use: 1679
in the meaning defined at sense 1
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Definition of soy for English Language Learners
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: soybeans and the food products that are made from soybeans
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