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also sirup
as in sentimentality
the state or quality of having an excess of tender feelings (as of love, nostalgia, or compassion)
a television show for toddlers that is nothing more than pure syrup
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Recent Examples of syrup
Her Perilla Yuja Soju and Tonic is a twist on the classic G&T using yuja (also known as yuzu) juice and a syrup made with fragrant perilla leaves to imbue the drink with a bright, grassy anise flavor.
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Heather Riske, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 May 2025
Many recipes call for many different ways to solve this (more on this below) but my favorite way is to add an ingredient in the form of demerara syrup.
—Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 17 May 2025
Here’s a recipe for strawberries and oranges in basil syrup.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2025
Its monumental circular tower, the largest in the region, boasts ingenious features such as notches designed to pour hot date syrup on invaders.
—Natasha Amar, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025
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Heather Riske, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 May 2025
Many recipes call for many different ways to solve this (more on this below) but my favorite way is to add an ingredient in the form of demerara syrup.
—Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 17 May 2025
Here’s a recipe for strawberries and oranges in basil syrup.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2025
Its monumental circular tower, the largest in the region, boasts ingenious features such as notches designed to pour hot date syrup on invaders.
—Natasha Amar, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for syrup
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Imaginative touches like that go a long way toward ameliorating the film’s small but not ignorable flaws, such as its tendency toward sentimentality in the last stretch and the gaping spaces where more character-building needs to be to land the plane safely.—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
20 May 2025
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Cash Flow And Control Beyond sentimentality, real estate can offer a financial utility that aligns well with multi-generational planning.—
DJ Van Keuren,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2025
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The moment when Sean soothes Laszlo’s fears of losing his best human buddy by telling him that the fear of dying just makes every living moment more special — something else a centuries-old vampire wouldn’t understand — tiptoes right up to the edge of sentimentalism.—
Katie Rife,
Vulture,
19 Nov. 2024
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King’s honeyed voiceover begins the film with a kind of sentimentalism about childhood and its innocence.—
Lisa Kennedy,
Variety,
4 July 2024
Noun
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Everything gets harder when your emotions run wild and your judgment clouds.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
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His evolution required alterations to his left-handed swing, learning how to channel his emotions, and even a few wake-up calls.—
Sahadev Sharma,
New York Times,
29 May 2025
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Elsewhere, a black granite sarcophagus is meant to be an homage to AIDS victims; this, too, empties into bathos.—
Jerry Saltz,
Vulture,
14 June 2024
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Playing with comic bathos is a dangerous game when aiming for sincerity.—
David Benedict,
Variety,
12 Sep. 2024
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The whole thing strikes a less successful balance between Gunn's dark comic side and his inherent sappiness than The Suicide Squad, the best Guardians of the Galaxy movie to not actually feature the Guardians of the Galaxy.—
A.A. Dowd,
Chron,
28 Apr. 2023
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The playful tone, however, oscillates between self-referential nods to the incongruity of people suddenly bursting into song and holiday-movie sentimentality, when either a more bare-knuckled commitment to satire or an unabashed embrace of its sappiness would be in order.—
Brian Lowry,
CNN,
17 Nov. 2022
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“Syrup.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/syrup. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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