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At first, the mushrooms will sop up all the liquid in the pan, then they’ll exude it, then take it up again.

From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2017

Normal savings, plus the taxes now contemplated, will sop up only $22 billions of the difference; the other $15 billions will be "rattling around with no place to go."

From Time Magazine Archive