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Recent Examples of Synonyms for leavening
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The Senegal players won’t be the only ones enlivening this summer’s World Cup.
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There is also enough cheese and schmaltz to go around, enlivening the more straightforward parts of the film.
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Her homecoming, the 43-year-old said, felt invigorating because of the World Cup energy.
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Laying out your ten-year goals can feel invigorating when the Sagittarius moon meets Saturn.
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Born and raised in Miami, Chef Giorgio Rapicavoli’s career has centered around the city’s culinary identity, most notably through infusing his own heritage—Argentine and Italian—in his dishes.
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The Sagittarius moon coordinates with Saturn, infusing your goals with a stronger sense of purpose.
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Railing against a new crop of progressive candidates has emerged as a more animating focus for a president who thrills to a fight.
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The entire process from mold making to animating the elephant now takes Prakashan and his crew about 15 days.
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Swedish entrepreneur Bengt Mortstedt and his family have spent two decades imbuing the Bequia Beach Hotel with low-key luxury.
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The need to complete that project has grown in urgency as NASA has faced increased competition with its space race rival, China, imbuing SpaceX’s sudden change in priorities with both financial and political stakes.
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Soldiers were self-inoculating without quarantine—which led to rampant rates of infection.
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Louvered windows are opened to allow outside air in, cooling the wort and inoculating it with microbes that will magically start fermentation.
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After suffusing some of this lunar simulant with helium-3, Interlune will use those samples to test its extraction methods.
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And, yes, suffusing it all is Pelicot’s interesting unreliability—to herself above all.
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Meanwhile, steeping the banana peels in milk gives the topping an extra layer of banana flavor without adding extra fruit or moisture.
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When her plants need a bit of extra support, Etemadipour might also add leftover tea by re-steeping tea leaves and using the second, weaker cup directly in her garden.
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“Leavening.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leavening. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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