soaked (up)

Definition of soaked (up)next
past tense of soak (up)
as in absorbed
to take in (something liquid) through small openings this sponge should soak up the spilled juice very nicely

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  • In fact, Musk sought to fold OpenAI into Tesla -- a move that would have absorbed the venture into a for-profit entity, lawyers for Altman said in a legal filing.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 18 May 2026
  • The region has absorbed a decade of being discovered and come out intact.
    Melinda Sheckells, HollywoodReporter, 18 May 2026
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  • In the study, people who drank between two and three daily cups of coffee or one or two cups of tea had lower subjective cognitive decline and performed better on cognitive tests.
    Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 15 May 2026
  • This reductive view of the world—women things bad, men things good—is the mirror image of the worst excesses of 2010s Tumblr feminism, when introverted teenage girls posted hashtags like #KillAllMen and drank from mugs that read MALE TEARS.
    Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 14 May 2026
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“Soaked (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soaked%20%28up%29. Accessed 19 May. 2026.

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