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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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Shop Now Citrus hues are always invigorating, whether served in small doses or in a monochromatic statement moment.
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More a sophisticated salon than sports bar, Champagne is doing the invigorating work for those in the pursuit of luxury and a hat trick that giant LED screens will be doing elsewhere.
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The concept was creatively directed by Allison Freidin, co-founder of Museum of Graffiti, who framed the whole project around infusing fashion, performance and culture into the single most important sporting event on the planet.
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Their bird-call voices cast an alluring glow over the music’s surface, infusing Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!
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Doctorow’s animating questions needle at something bigger.
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Was there an animating head-on-the-floor moment?
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With Sonja Tyspin’s cinematography imbuing an innocent, sensual curiosity, Kiyoko sweetly conveys the awkward thrill of fledgling emotions.
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Cassavetes' signature unvarnished style is present throughout, imbuing the film with palpable dread.
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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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Make spearmint tea by steeping fresh or dried spearmint leaves in hot water.
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The flavor craze began back in 2023 when social media users were steeping black tea bags in a bottle of Sprite.
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“Leavening.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leavening. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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