Example Sentences

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While the Prepd concept was pressed into service sooner than expected, the idea had been marinating for the past few years.

From Washington Times • Mar. 8, 2021

My mind had been marinating overnight—and for more than a year, really—in the abstrusities of cryptocurrencies and the blockchain technology on which they are built.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 15, 2018

I wouldn’t miss the history in which we had been marinating all week: a Brunswick stew of Blackbeard, the Civil War and Andy Griffith.

From New York Times • Mar. 12, 2015