Dawn Foster

Many regard freemasonry as an 18th-century boys' club, all funny aprons and comedic handshakes. That's good for the masons themselves, but it's our mistake. The most senior figures are listed, but surely that's a sop because, all the while, the vast majority of lay members, 'the brotherhood,' remain anonymous.

British Journalist

Preity Zinta

If women want to be treated equally, then they can't ask for sops and whine about not being treated equally. All I'll say is no guts, no glory for men or women.

Indian Actress

Jim Rogers

Tough times helped many commodities producers become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.

American Businessman

Will Self

As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.

English Author

Christopher Plummer

They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop.

Canadian Actor

Used to describe minor concessions or superficial measures given to satisfy demands.

Placating Gesture

A sop is often seen as inadequate compared to what is actually needed or expected.

Critically Insufficient

Highlighting triviality, 'sop' can imply that the offering is symbolic rather than of tangible benefit.

Token Offering

Emphasizes the idea of food like bread or sponge cake used to soak up liquid before eating.

Food Absorbing Liquid

In many cultures, having a sop is a comforting and homely practice.

Cultural Comfort Food

Focus on 'sop' describing the action of completely immersing something so it absorbs liquid.

Thorough Soaking

Using 'sop' as a verb may sound archaic or old-fashioned in modern conversation.

Old-Fashioned Expression

Refers to standard policies or instructions that a group uses to achieve uniformity in tasks.

Workplace Consistency

In professional settings, 'SOP' is commonly understood as an acronym for 'Standard Operating Procedure'.

Technical Acronym

 So if we don't have a healthy forest sopping up all the rain that's pounding down on the tops of these mountain tops, we have no water control, we have no water management, we have catastrophic flooding, we also have no filtration of water to provide drinking water and recharging of the aquifers.

Saving Hawaii’s Birds...

 think broadly or creative. They can be. Our school systems are very flawed and do not reward you for the things that are important in life or for the survival of civilization; they reward you for a lot of learning and sopping up stuff.

Paul MacCready: Nature...

 Like the compounds in smoke, these sop up free radicals and stave off rancid flavors that can develop in foods like oils, cheese, and cereal. Other antioxidants like citric acid and ascorbic acid help cut produce keep its color

Are food preservatives...

 sooner than that would have liked but it's what the situation required we were all pretty wet we're all very hungry this morning we had a bush wagon immediately we got sucked sopping wet a

Sop