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as in hazy
filled with or dimmed by fine particles (as of dust or water) in suspension
the soupy skies over the island make a nighttime landing a very risky business
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as in runny
having an overly soft liquid consistency
soupy ice cream that had been left out on the counter
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as in sentimental
appealing to the emotions in an obvious and tiresome way
once starred as the virginal ingenue in a string of soupy operettas
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Recent Examples of soupy
The heart of the play lies in gently unpicking and expanding its own optimism, because Brasch, while avoiding soupy affirmation, also doesn’t want things to get too grim.
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Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 25 Feb. 2026
No endless gray days and frozen or soupy soil.
—Paul Cappiello, Louisville Courier Journal, 13 Feb. 2026
The texture of the ice cream, that came out in a continuous ribbon, was luxuriously smooth and not at all soupy or icy.
—Mark Marino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 6 Jan. 2026
Mix 2 tablespoons of the powdered bleach with warm water to make a soupy paste.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 25 Dec. 2025
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Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 25 Feb. 2026
No endless gray days and frozen or soupy soil.
—Paul Cappiello, Louisville Courier Journal, 13 Feb. 2026
The texture of the ice cream, that came out in a continuous ribbon, was luxuriously smooth and not at all soupy or icy.
—Mark Marino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 6 Jan. 2026
Mix 2 tablespoons of the powdered bleach with warm water to make a soupy paste.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 25 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for soupy
Adjective
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In a break from decades of tradition, the band walked onto the stage in total darkness, visible to the crowd only in hazy silhouette.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
1 Apr. 2026
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Once you're set up, use your phone to scan the skies for faint hazy glows.—
Daisy Dobrijevic,
Space.com,
31 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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About 2½ minutes for runny yolks; 4–5 minutes for firmer, jammy centers.—
Chris Morocco,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
26 Mar. 2026
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Sniffing, sneezing, itchy eyes, and a runny nose?—
Tiffany Acosta,
AZCentral.com,
25 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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But Prairie Village is a sentimental spot for Bracco and his wife.—
Jenna Thompson,
Kansas City Star,
31 Mar. 2026
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None of the people close to them care about it because the majority of the people that are advising kids now are agents who are looking at it from a business perspective, or families that are not sentimental about any of this.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
29 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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To the left of Castor and Pollux lies the constellation Cancer, the crab, the core of which plays host to the 100-strong stellar population of the Beehive Cluster (M44), which is visible as a small, misty patch of light on moonless nights.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
19 Mar. 2026
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Other images similarly mix the romantic and the mundane, with glamorous students in front of kitschy backdrops of misty woodlands or positioned between towering candelabras.—
Jacqui Palumbo,
CNN Money,
11 Mar. 2026
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While that advice refers primarily to metal utensils, the same principles apply across materials, especially where thin construction can increase the risk of breakage.—
Darlin Tillery,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2026
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Not only did that article form the basis of the film, but Lumet actually took the note and cast Pacino in the role of that dark, thin fellow.—
Chris Jones,
New York Daily News,
31 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Equal parts creature feature and Florida noir, Mermaid is sticky, sunburned, and defiantly strange.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
31 Mar. 2026
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Maurer imagines blending the fungi with Martian or lunar dirt; their sticky mycelia would cement it into an extraterrestrial equivalent of particle board.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
31 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The beetles take advantage of the fact that the construction workers who finished the house just a few months earlier miscalculated and left too much space between the doors and the ground, failing to consider insects or the rainy season.—
María Ospina,
The Dial,
31 Mar. 2026
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Fire trucks lined up outside a funeral home in Chicago’s southwest suburbs on a gray and rainy Tuesday morning for the funeral of Michael Altman, a Chicago firefighter who died while working to put out a Rogers Park fire earlier this month.—
Madeline King,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Mar. 2026
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Seagrass light-gathering pigments are reconfigured, each seagrass species finding the pigment palette that best embraces the blue-green watery light of its home.—
David George Haskell,
Big Think,
27 Mar. 2026
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Red, watery eyes that can develop into pink eye or conjunctivitis.—
Kristen Jordan Shamus,
Freep.com,
19 Mar. 2026
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“Soupy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soupy. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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