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sop (en)

(noun) a piece of food dipped or steeped in a liquid / (noun) a conciliatory or propitiatory bribe, gift, or gesture / (verb) to steep or dip in or as if in liquid / (verb) to wet thoroughly; soak / (verb) mop / (abbreviation) standard operating procedure; standing operating procedure

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saw that as a sop to powerful southern conservatives

—p.78 Out of These Ashes (60) by Steven Greenhouse
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4 years, 1 month ago


Kerensky’s only sop to the Soviet was the exclusion from his dictatorial Directory of any Kadets

—p.238 September: Compromise and Its Discontents (236) by China Miéville
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6 years, 6 months ago


offering random sops such as the bid to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel

—p.53 The Culture Wars are Dead (48) by Andrew Hartman
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5 years, 4 months ago


The Art Students League will be shrouded but kept barely alive as a sop to its billionaire neighbors; though they may not engage with it, they will have the comfort of knowing there is art close by.

—p.23 The Needles and the Damage Done (20) missing author
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4 years, 8 months ago


we ridiculed the teaching of hip-hop at Harvard, a shameful sop to black students admitted through affirmative action and, worse, to self-hating white liberals

—p.118 White Voice (113) by Dan Sinykin
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3 years, 10 months ago