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Recent Examples of curdle
This causes the proteins in milk to curdle and results in the tangy yogurt taste and texture.
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Allison Herries, Verywell Health, 10 Feb. 2025
This was when his baroque aesthetic vision could curdle into kitsch.
—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
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Allison Herries, Verywell Health, 10 Feb. 2025
This was when his baroque aesthetic vision could curdle into kitsch.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for curdle
Verb
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But later, under former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, relations soured.—
Christian Edwards,
CNN Money,
16 Apr. 2025
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Sentiment soured though as the White House doubled down in the afternoon on aggressive tariffs.—
Medora Lee,
USA Today,
8 Apr. 2025
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But this is also a movie about parents who are fighting to hold on to the children who are for one reason or another, estranged.—
Todd Gilchrist,
Variety,
25 Apr. 2025
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Jackson was estranged from her family and was never reported missing, Fitzpatrick said.—
Meredith Deliso,
ABC News,
23 Apr. 2025
Verb
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When printing textiles, gum arabic played the indispensable role of a thickening agent that helped bind dyes on fabric.—
Erik Zou,
JSTOR Daily,
25 Apr. 2025
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Evangelista later revealed that she had been diagnosed with Paradoxical adipose hyperplasia (PAH), a rare side effect that affects less than 1% of CoolSculpting patients, in which the freezing process causes the affected fatty tissue to thicken and expand.—
Lauryn Overhultz,
FOXNews.com,
24 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Her ’60s clumped lashes and coiffed hair, for example, are still highly referenced today.—
India Espy-Jones,
Essence,
25 Mar. 2025
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Last month, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh revealed a biomarker test that can spot small amounts of clumping tau protein in the brain a decade in advance of them appearing prominently in brain scans as a cause of Alzheimer's.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
6 Mar. 2025
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“Curdle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curdle. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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