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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
  • Staples, played in the movie by Emily Blunt, was a recovering alcoholic, and the couple’s fraught journeys with sobriety led to feelings of abandonment and bitterness.
    Rory Doherty, Time, 5 Sep. 2025
  • AlAnon is a support group for family and friends of alcoholics/addicts.
    Ramona Sentinel, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Before going in, run the inside of your mouth with your tongue to wet every surface.
    Ian Kumamoto, Them., 10 Sep. 2025
  • Increase the resistance on this exercise by wetting the towel first.
    Aubrey Bailey, Verywell Health, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Surveys suggest consumer confidence has dipped and auto loan defaults and repossessions are on the rise.
    Ken Alltucker, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Stock prices dipped slightly in trading Wednesday after Oracle reported an upbeat outlook for cloud revenue and the Producer Price Index revealed a decline in wholesale prices in August.
    Catherine Brock, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Don't let your soil dry out then soak it.
    Amy Brightfield, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Once soaked, take them out and rinse the parts thoroughly.
    Abby Fribush, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Charlie Sheen once piloted a jet drunk.
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Stray Bullets • In this week’s post-credits scene, Adrian removes the pants of the drunk, sleeping John Economos and plants a tender kiss on his forehead.
    Scott Meslow, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • There’s a risk of the children drowning in the pool or being bitten by spiders; there’s the danger of a brush fire on the nearby hillside; and more.
    Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2025
  • That matters because SOCs are drowning in noise and budget strain from log ingestion.
    Tony Bradley, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In theory, a hesitation such as this shows the ace -- the defender was not ready for your play and was not sure whether to duck or not.
    Deb Harvell, Arkansas Online, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Some instinctively ducked, covered their classmates or followed teachers’ directions.
    Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Interestingly, this is not the first time the King drenched himself in rain to swing a club.
    Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
  • With the Chocolate Original Glazed, the whole donut is drenched in a milk chocolate coating.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2025

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“Souse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/souse. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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