decocted

past tense of decoct

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for decocted
Verb
  • According to the brand, the bourbon was distilled in 2014 and 2015, initially aged in new charred oak, and then transferred to first-fill and second-fill port barrels for a total of up to three years of secondary maturation.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 2 Oct. 2025
  • For those of us of a certain age, Heart the Lover is nostalgia distilled to black ink.
    Book Marks September 25, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Less pure sand can be purified by methods such as acid washing or magnetic separation.
    Aki Ishida, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2025
  • This innovation purified the Ohio River water so well that the number of deaths from typhoid fever declined by 60% in 1909.
    Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But a House Fiscal Agency report shows that total artificially reduced by the way billions in federal funding is accounted for, by moving Medicaid money to contingency funds where they are not included in the budget total.
    Paul Egan, Freep.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the federal spending on Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP — another priority for Democrats — will be reduced by more than $1 trillion over the next decade as a result of provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill.
    Scott Neuman, NPR, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Despite the bold tones and sculptural silhouettes on display, the beauty direction stayed pared-back and refined, focused on skincare, highlighting Prada Beauty’s skincare line.
    Kristine Kwak, StyleCaster, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The steering wanders like a distracted Labrador, the ride quality is about as refined as a pogo stick on a gravel driveway, and wind noise makes the cabin sound like you’re trapped inside a tent during a storm.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 27 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Jews were purged from the Soviet Foreign Ministry in 1939, when the Soviet Union signed a pact with Nazi Germany, and antisemitic show trials followed not long after Germany’s defeat.
    Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Many of China’s top military officials have been purged during Xi’s third term on charges of corruption or disloyalty.
    PHILIP H. GORDON, Foreign Affairs, 22 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Keep your house landscape or camping grounds well cleaned and manicured.
    Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Sep. 2025
  • And 12 flies were over cleaned food containers at the warewashing area, and five roaches climbed the walls around the kitchen dishwasher.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In an interview with Good Morning America after the books publication, Harry clarified Michael Strahan that there wasn’t harsh feelings towards Camilla.
    Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The ministry clarified later to public broadcaster DR that reports of additional drone activity at Skrydstrup Air Base and the Jutland Dragoon Regiment referred to sightings that didn’t occur overnight from Friday to Saturday.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • With straight-forward fits and washes, Burberry and Gucci cleansed the palette for bolder and brasher Spring/Summer 2026 designs by labels like Harri, Natasha Zinko and Yaku.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Certainly, the urban vanguard of the revolution have not so much cleansed the country’s politics as expanded it.
    Kapil Komireddi, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
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“Decocted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decocted. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.

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