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Recent Examples of Synonyms for soak (up)
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As the two men drink their first soda for nearly a year and wistfully speak of clean clothes, another first-person view drone is heard overhead in the city of Kramatorsk, sending locals scattering.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
30 May 2026 -
This is a time when TCM has never been more popular, with practices including acupuncture, as well as cupping, herbal medicine, and other somatic therapies (or something as simple as drinking warm water) going mainstream in the Western world.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
29 May 2026
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There is no version of this where producers absorb tens of billions of dollars in new liability and don’t pass it on.—
Yaël Ossowski,
Boston Herald,
30 May 2026
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Place an open box in a discreet corner of the bathroom to absorb unwanted odors over several months.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
29 May 2026
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Becerra, Hilton, and Steyer, a progressive billionaire entrepreneur and climate activist, survived amid a packed field of 61 gubernatorial candidates that took up a full page on a nearly two-foot-long ballot.—
Terry Collins,
USA Today,
10 June 2026
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Those lawsuits failed, but Venice Dell proponents alleged in a July 2024 lawsuit that Park and Feldstein Soto took up where neighborhood critics failed in court and worked behind the scenes to thwart the project.—
Andrew Khouri,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2026
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“Soak (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soak%20%28up%29. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.
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