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as in to sour
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Recent Examples of curdle
This was when his baroque aesthetic vision could curdle into kitsch.
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Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
Reddit is surging at a time when much of the rest of the social web has curdled.
—Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 4 Mar. 2025
As the seasons wore on, PSG’s upstart charm curdled into bloated self-parody.
—Jack Lang, The Athletic, 18 Jan. 2025
The same qualities that attract residents to small communities – a sense of trust that can come from knowing everyone in town – sometimes curdle into hushing up questions about concerning practices.
—Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025
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Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
Reddit is surging at a time when much of the rest of the social web has curdled.
—Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 4 Mar. 2025
As the seasons wore on, PSG’s upstart charm curdled into bloated self-parody.
—Jack Lang, The Athletic, 18 Jan. 2025
The same qualities that attract residents to small communities – a sense of trust that can come from knowing everyone in town – sometimes curdle into hushing up questions about concerning practices.
—Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for curdle
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Even if earnings do come in ahead of expectations, souring economic expectations due to tariffs have already punished their stocks and could continue to do so next week, Cramer said.—
Erin Doherty,Annika Kim Constantino,Yun Li,
CNBC,
5 Apr. 2025
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Investor sentiment had already soured going into the announcement.—
John Buckingham,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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Feuding families, a fierce food competition show, and estranged family members who may or may not be ready to mend fences.—
Rebecca Angel Baer,
Southern Living,
30 Mar. 2025
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Listen to this article Dear Eric: My brother and I were estranged for many years at his insistence.—
R. Eric Thomas,
The Denver Post,
20 Mar. 2025
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The figs would cook until their tough outer skin softened and some began to burst open to gently ooze their seedy pulp, thickening the mixture into a grainy, molasses-brown syrup, while other figs remained whole, their thick stems still attached.—
Claude Barilleaux,
Christian Science Monitor,
9 Apr. 2025
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Formulated with organic amla and rice protein and proven to thicken hair by 11% (per the brand), the volumizing foam will create fuller, all-day voluminous curls.—
Natasha Marsh,
Allure,
7 Apr. 2025
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Types of Kitty Litter (and When to Use Them) Types of litter vary based on consistency, clumping ability, and scent.—
Nafeesah Allen,
Better Homes & Gardens,
8 Apr. 2025
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Tiny grains of dust scattered across the cosmos can collect in disks around young stars and clump together to eventually form planets.—
Samantha Mathewson,
Space.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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“Curdle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curdle. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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