Sebastian Maniscalco

I give a facial expression in a moment of silence for audiences to react to what I just said and kind of let that marinate with the audience for a little bit. I enjoy the physical part of the comedy as much as the verbal content. People tend to gravitate to not only what they're hearing but also what they're seeing.

American Comedian

Katy Mixon

Whenever you're blessed and given a second season, you can really let the characters evolve. That first season, you're setting everything up. It's background, where they're coming from, what they want to do. And then you get to marinate in it that second season.

American Actress

Carl Honore

We're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives - on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community.

Canadian Journalist

I'm not the mixtape guy who's gonna put out a new one every month. I'm gonna allow my albums to marinate and resonate and whatever type of 'ates' they can do. I'm gonna let my music grow on them.

American Musician

Frankie Cosmos

Those emotions that are really strong, the ones that inspire a song, you can hold onto that. You can let it marinate for years and keep writing about it even better than you did then.

Graham Joyce

Our literary culture is marinated in deep traditions of the fantastic and the supernatural, and we export those rich qualities in films and books on a spectacular industrial scale.

English Writer

Danai Gurira

Actors may not realize the extent of their own power. Acting is creation. It's them bringing their own stuff, letting it marinate in their soul, in their creative engine.

Guy Fieri

If you're feeling adventurous, grill up some marinated octopus. It's so healthy.

American Businessman

Monty Williams

I get how you have to marinate your bigs. They take longer.

American Coach

Cate Blanchett

I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.

Australian Actress

Used in cooking contexts to describe preparing food with a flavorful liquid.

Culinary Term

Marinating often implies letting the food sit for hours for better taste.

Time Factor

Emphasizes an ongoing action; food is actively absorbing flavors.

Active Process

Indicates a figurative use of 'marinate' related to thoughts, not food.

Metaphorical Use

Suggests a slow, thoughtful process, like soaking in ideas.

Reflective Thinking

Used in casual conversation rather than formal or academic settings.

Informal Expression

 it marinate in your mind distract yourself and then a few days later go with your gut because unconsciously you've figured it out the second insight is that emotions are at the center of our thinking people with strokes and lesions in the emotion processing parts of the brain are not super smart they're actually quite sometimes quite helpless

Social animal - David...

 And as I watched the conversation really marinate with my students, I began to wonder how many of my students have assumptions just like Abby. And what happens when those assumptions go unnoticed and unaddressed, as they so often do? But first, I think it's important to take a step back and even consider what makes a topic taboo.

How to teach kids to...

 if you make the buns and you marinate the meat and you do all this stuff, it does take about 30 hours. Of course, you're not actually working the whole time. Most of the time is kind of sitting there. The point of this cutaway is to show people a view of hamburgers they haven't seen before and to explain the physics of hamburgers

Nathan Myhrvold: Cut...

 but it seems like soy sauce actually increased the potential carcinogens. Another important factor that I didn't take into account initially was the time cooked. And I found that if you increase the time cooked, the amount of carcinogens rapidly increases. So the best way to marinate chicken, based on this,

Award-winning teen-age...

 I mean, these are sort of the extreme examples, and they're amusing and good to laugh at. But there's a very serious point, and I think that in the headlong dash of daily life, we often lose sight of the damage that this roadrunner form of living does to us. We're so marinated in the culture of speed

Carl Honore: In praise...

 climbing and you know you cannot just you finally finally found the animal what can you catch it don't pee on me and scare you just know you must let it happen basically poor guy anyway so he got marinated and he didn't want to call her on the money after that so now we're

Mattias Klum: Lions,...

 And the way you should do that is study the furniture, let it marinate in your mind, distract yourself, and then a few days later, go with your gut, because unconsciously you've figured it out. The second insight is that emotions are at the center of our thinking.

David Brooks: The social...

 life we we often lose sight of the damage that this Roadrunner form of living does to us we're so marinated in the culture of speed that we we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives on our health

Praising slowness - Carl...

 the meerkat puffs look on as the adults take care of business I think we've got a winner it's the meerkats in a unanimous decision as the puff adder skedaddled and the meerkats marinate in the glory of victory

Meerkats vs. Puff Adder...

 meerkats in a unanimous decision as the puff adder skedaddled and the meerkats marinate in the glory of victory

Marinate

To soak food in a sauce before cooking to make it more tender or to add flavor.

Often appears as...

To think deeply about something for a long time.

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Culinary Term

Time Factor

Active Process

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