in the soup
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“It felt like what the moment called for. I was definitely in the soup already,” she says, writing songs for “Virgin” — “dropping all guard and being radically transparent,” as she puts it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2025
Then I took some of the leeks, pulled them out before cooking them in the soup, and then I fried them in ghee, and then put that on top as a topping.
From Salon ● May 13, 2023
The market may be "back in the soup on the banking crisis," said Chuck Carlson, chief executive officer at Horizon Investment Services.
From Reuters ● May 3, 2023
When the soup is ready to serve, microplane a little lemon zest into each bowl, and ladle in the soup.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2022
That was okay too, because now I got all the chicken and the vegetables in the soup with warm corn tortillas and my mother’s sopa de arroz.
From "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe" by Benjamin Alire Saenz
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