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Recent Examples of souse
Noun
Mars in your sign only happens every two years, souse this time wisely. Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 3 Aug. 2025 For another Grand Turk specialty, chicken souse served with journey (called johnnycake on other Caribbean islands), Been suggests the deli at the Graceway Grand Turk or the Spot at the JAGS McCartney Airport, which serves the dish on Saturdays. Laura Begley Bloom, AFAR Media, 10 Mar. 2025 Taste traditional home cooking If fish is for Friday, the traditional Bajan dish of pudding and souse is the staple of Saturday. Patrick Scott, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025 The meat in souse is first tenderized through boiling and then marinated in lime, cucumbers, peppers and seasonings to pickled perfection. Essence, 25 Nov. 2024 Guests were treated to local specialties like fresh conch salad, crack conch fritters, curry goat, chicken souse and more, with a side of carnival vibes and traditional music and dance performances. Claudia Alarcón, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024 While assembling these souse and bakes, the complex history of the Caribbean comes into full view, as does the resilience of Grenadians who have turned the foods of their oppression such as saltfish into profoundly beautiful, delicious dishes. Lelani Lewis, Saveur, 29 Feb. 2024 The caterers served roti and jerk and pelau and souse. Victoria Brown, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Feb. 2021
Verb
Mars in your sign only happens every two years, souse this time wisely. Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 3 Aug. 2025 The party scenes are tawdry, with flappers frenetically jiggling, their underwear peeking out and soused guests making spectacles of themselves. Danielle Teller, People.com, 10 Apr. 2025 The athletes were unwinding in the locker room when Coach Mark Few and his assistants charged in and began sousing them with ice-cold water. Andrew Keh, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2023 And then there’s the soy sauce that gets soused over everything to improve bad food in a cheap restaurant. Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 5 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for souse
Noun
  • James, who quit drinking three years ago, was a functional alcoholic for years.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Her mother abandoned her when Wuornos was 4, and she was adopted by her grandparents, who were alcoholics.
    Peter White, Deadline, 22 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But the comedy is absolutely something that wets my beak, I'm drawn to it.
    H. Alan Scott, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • What sold me on the Shapton set was the process of wetting the whetstones.
    Jesse Raub, Bon Appetit Magazine, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • New vaccination maps reveal outbreak risks New county-level data compiled from state health agencies show vaccination rates across the country are dipping at the same time measles cases are surging.
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Another Central Valley battleground district, the 22nd, would likely remain centered around Delano and keep much of its clubfoot that dips into Bakersfield to the south.
    Nicole Nixon, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Bahamas are still enduring Imelda’s winds and heavy rain after being soaked over the weekend, even as the storm started to move away Monday afternoon.
    Briana Waxman, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Then let the berries soak for 5-10 minutes.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In 1984, a 20-year-old woman named Kathleen Barry was killed in a drunk-driving crash, prompting legal reforms in Massachusetts.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Yes, that is not a way to clear herself from the problem of very publicly calling Shannon a drunk.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • People fled to the roof, where the roar of rushing water nearly drowned out the approach of rescue helicopters, Mitchell said.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The risk of drowning for autistic children is more than 160 times greater than the general child population, according to a 2017 study by Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.
    Victoria Moorwood, Cincinnati Enquirer, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Gardner ducked under the dark cloth and focused the image on the ground glass of his camera.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The video shows agents ducking for cover in front of two white vans while quickly shuffling detainees inside the facility, where an ICE agent frantically guided the detainees down a hallway.
    Peter D'Abrosca , Brooke Taylor, FOXNews.com, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This alcove is drenched in a rich shade of deep blue paint that imparts a sense of calm without feeling heavy or dark.
    Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Imelda’s drenching rains also began to ebb in the Bahamas on Monday, as most of the remaining tropical storm warnings were lifted Monday evening, minus the most northwestern islands of Grand Bahama and Great Abaco Island.
    Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 29 Sep. 2025

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