as in to enliven
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The digital food scale can accurately weigh items as heavy as 11 pounds or 5,000 grams and as light as 2 grams, registering even small additions like leavening ingredients.
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Maggie Horton, People.com, 18 June 2025
The director’s observation of the mutable contracts between sisters, and even more so, fathers and daughters, is intensely affecting in a movie freighted with melancholy but also leavened by notes of surprising humor.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 24 May 2025
Because of this, sourdough may be easier to digest and trigger fewer gastrointestinal symptoms than commercially leavened bread.16
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Sourdough bread is a healthy option, but there are plenty of other breads that are packed with nutrition and offer unique health benefits.
—Jillian Kubala, Health, 20 May 2025
Jewish law strictly forbids owning any chametz, or leavened food, during Passover.
—Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2025
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Maggie Horton, People.com, 18 June 2025
The director’s observation of the mutable contracts between sisters, and even more so, fathers and daughters, is intensely affecting in a movie freighted with melancholy but also leavened by notes of surprising humor.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 24 May 2025
Because of this, sourdough may be easier to digest and trigger fewer gastrointestinal symptoms than commercially leavened bread.16
A Quick Review
Sourdough bread is a healthy option, but there are plenty of other breads that are packed with nutrition and offer unique health benefits.
—Jillian Kubala, Health, 20 May 2025
Jewish law strictly forbids owning any chametz, or leavened food, during Passover.
—Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for leaven
Verb
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Corcoran enlivens the table with endlessly debatable ideas alongside his rabbit in mustard sauce and Scottish langoustines.—
Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
21 July 2025
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The aromatic wine enlivens the mellow notes of the squash while the pyrazines (a green pepper taste) in certain Sauvignon Blancs are a match for the similar flavor of the bell peppers.—
Jillian Dara,
Forbes.com,
19 July 2025
Verb
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The clip takes a bunch of old still photos of the King and uses AI to animate them.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
29 July 2025
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On Sunday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: The issue of transgender college athletes continues to animate Republicans as the Trump administration doubles down on their attacks on trans rights.—
Taylor Wilson,
USA Today,
29 July 2025
Verb
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In state fairs, festivals, parks, and town halls across the country this summer, the Democratic Party will try to invigorate voters to join their organizing efforts, even as polling shows lackluster excitement.—
Ross O'Keefe,
The Washington Examiner,
1 Aug. 2025
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The ministry has sought bolder moves in recent weeks to invigorate the country’s film industry in particular, which is currently experiencing a slump at the box office and a sharp slowdown in film production.—
Sara Merican,
Deadline,
29 July 2025
Verb
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Once the sugar has been infused with strawberry, add 2.5 oz of water and mix to dissolve it.—
Jillian Dara,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2025
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During a drug and alcohol infused blackout in 1989, Osbourne almost choked his wife Sharon Osbourne to death.—
Daniela Avila,
People.com,
22 July 2025
Verb
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Imbued with empathy, Canseco is poised to extend the ambassador mentality inculcated at the fair in her first-in-her-family journey to college.—
News Release,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 June 2025
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Abe was part of a conservative faction of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and known for his association with Nippon Kaigi, an influential conservative organization that among other goals advocated teaching Japanese history to inculcate national pride.—
Jennifer Lind,
Foreign Affairs,
12 July 2022
Verb
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His Marx was imbued with a strange ironic nihilism.—
Leigh Claire La Berge,
Harpers Magazine,
16 July 2025
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Each material, curve, and proportion is imbued with intention to reflect that spirit.—
Bill Springer,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
Verb
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In certain vintages, Carpenter has inoculated up to 20 percent yeast to help boost what Mother Nature has provided.—
Mike DeSimone,
Robb Report,
17 June 2025
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Other possible technology, both for sampling and for inoculating, is already in development, Cable says.—
Joshua Rapp Learn,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 May 2025
Verb
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The notion that Social Security faces a shortfall suffuses the national conversation about retirement.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
24 July 2025
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The one person who actually went to prison for the 2021 shooting death of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins is free just weeks after the tragedy suffused Alec Baldwin starring indie Western premiered and then promptly disappeared in a cloud of box office dust earlier this month.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
25 May 2025
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“Leaven.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leaven. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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