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How to pronounce sop in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms sops
Type of bit, bite, morsel
Type Words
Synonyms douse, dowse, drench, soak, souse
Type of wet
Has types brine, draggle, flush, sluice, bate, bedraggle, ret
Type Words
Synonyms standard operating procedure, standard procedure, standing operating procedure
Type of operating procedure
Has types lockstep
Type Words
Synonyms soak through
Type of ooze through
Type Words
Type of concession


the offer was a sop to my feelings.
Type Words
Type of dip, douse, dunk, plunge, souse


sop bread into the sauce.
Type Words
Type of bribe, buy, grease one's palms, corrupt

Examples of sop

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Business leaders condemned the changes as being too much of a sop to the unions.
From the telegraph.co.uk
A sop is a piece of bread or toast that is soaked in liquid food and then eaten.
From the en.wikipedia.org
It's basically a sop to a once-powerful Congressman a few weeks from retirement.
From the scienceblogs.com
Tiny pieces of garlic cheese toast on the side did nothing to sop up the sauce.
From the thenewstribune.com
This tolerance of deeper integration by a small group was a sop to federalists.
From the economist.com
And when he had dipped the SOP, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.
From the en.wikipedia.org
They say the plan is a sop to logging companies and will damage forest ecology.
From the newscientist.com
As for wanting to cut corporation tax, that is nothing but a sop to big business.
From the guardian.co.uk
You will need more than one basket of bread to sop up all the delicious sauce.
From the kentucky.com
More examples
  • Piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid
  • Give a conciliatory gift or bribe to
  • A concession given to mollify or placate; "the offer was a sop to my feelings"
  • Be or become thoroughly soaked or saturated with a liquid
  • Standing operating procedure: a prescribed procedure to be followed routinely; "rote memorization has been the educator's standard operating procedure for centuries"
  • Dip into liquid; "sop bread into the sauce"
  • A sop is a piece of bread or toast that is soaked in liquid food and then eaten. In medieval cuisine, sops were very common. Sops were served with wine, soup or broth, which were then picked apart into smaller pieces to soak in the liquid. ...
  • Internet Relay Chat services (usually called IRC services) is a name for a set of features implemented in most modern Internet Relay Chat networks. Services are automated bots with special status which are generally used to provide users with access with certain privileges and protection. ...
  • SOP was a Philippine noontime music/variety show aired by GMA Network. The show airs from 12pm-3pm on Sundays. The show is broadcast from Studio 4 at the GMA Network Studios. The show title stands for "Sobrang Okey, Pare! ...