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Recent Examples of curdle
This comes in handy when making something like custard, which can curdle or burn if the pan gets hot too fast.
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Wilder Davies, Bon Appétit, 18 Mar. 2025
Relations between the mayor and fire chief curdled badly.
—Shawn Hubler, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2025
But their chemistry begins to curdle when she is terrorized by a series of anonymous drops to her phone.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 6 Mar. 2025
While a 70 percent drop would immediately signify audience sentiment around the movie has curdled and is impacting word-of-mouth buzz to keep people away from theaters.
—Chris Lee, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2025
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Wilder Davies, Bon Appétit, 18 Mar. 2025
Relations between the mayor and fire chief curdled badly.
—Shawn Hubler, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2025
But their chemistry begins to curdle when she is terrorized by a series of anonymous drops to her phone.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 6 Mar. 2025
While a 70 percent drop would immediately signify audience sentiment around the movie has curdled and is impacting word-of-mouth buzz to keep people away from theaters.
—Chris Lee, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for curdle
Verb
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But in the years since, Democrats’ fortunes have soured in Idaho.—
Sarah Cutler,
Idaho Statesman,
6 June 2025
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Trump is unhappy with Musk’s outburst, but Republicans are downplaying the effect on their agenda bill Trump confirmed their relationship has soured, with Musk repeatedly blasting the president’s sweeping domestic agenda bill in recent days and a public fight on social media on Thursday.—
Matt Egan,
CNN Money,
6 June 2025
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There was, however, an interview with Ashleigh Hale, estranged daughter of Meghan's half sister Samantha Markle.—
Jack Royston,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 June 2025
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In the play, Farrow, in a moving, quirky performance that would earn her a Tony Award nomination, played Sharon, a lonely Iowa woman – estranged from her adult son, divorced from her husband – who decides to take a boarder into her large farmhouse.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
3 June 2025
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Traditionally, powdered starch thickens the sauce, but here, grated potato achieves the same effect with less gloopiness.—
The New York Times,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 June 2025
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If a person doesn’t drink enough water when the weather is hot and dry, the body becomes dehydrated, the blood thickens, and the heart may not be able to pump enough oxygen to the brain.—
Madhusree Mukerjee,
Scientific American,
2 June 2025
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The wet clippings clump together on the mower blades and in the lawn.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
8 June 2025
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Long before stars even formed, dark matter clumped up and drew regular matter together with its gravity, providing the invisible scaffolding upon which stars and galaxies eventually grew.—
Stephen Clark – Jun 6,
ArsTechnica,
6 June 2025
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“Curdle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curdle. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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