as in taffy
excessive praise
a junior exec who was laying on the butter so thickly that her colleagues were ready to gag
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Recent Examples of butter
From the decant Hokkaido style milk buns with a caviar tare butter pour over to the Bluefin tuna tartare, there's also a good selection of non-beef items to splurge on.
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Chelsea Davis, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Or, try adding almond butter to toast or pancakes.
—Merve Ceylan, Health, 18 Sep. 2025
Try a gradient scale that goes from purple to red, or pair complementary shades like rich purple and butter yellow together.
—Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Sep. 2025
In large bowl, beat together butter and sugar with electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy.
—Gretchen McKay, Twin Cities, 18 Sep. 2025
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Chelsea Davis, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Or, try adding almond butter to toast or pancakes.
—Merve Ceylan, Health, 18 Sep. 2025
Try a gradient scale that goes from purple to red, or pair complementary shades like rich purple and butter yellow together.
—Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Sep. 2025
In large bowl, beat together butter and sugar with electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy.
—Gretchen McKay, Twin Cities, 18 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for butter
Noun
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The Korean taffy candy is considered good luck, specifically for the CSAT.—
Kayti Burt,
Time,
29 Aug. 2025
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Volunteers in yellow shirts handed out grapes, watermelon, taffy and Gatorade to community members, and white candles to be lit.—
Lily Kepner,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
Noun
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Private Money, Public Breakthroughs To call Saad Bhamla and his seven co-recipients polymaths is more than flattery.—
John Drake,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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In aggregate, users favored responses full of agreement and flattery.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
25 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The routine earned enthusiastic praise from all three judges.—
Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Sep. 2025
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As the sweetly melodic ballad tapers, a gentle beat kicks in and Carey vocalizes words of religious praise over a syncopated coda for the last two minutes, her five-octave voice punctuating her patented melismatic style.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
23 Sep. 2025
Noun
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People should wash any skin that comes into contact with the slurry with water and soft soap, before using a hand cream to avoid dryness and cracking.—
Lauren Penington,
The Denver Post,
2 Sep. 2024
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Most of the questions aimed at the ironic American director of Raging Bull, Taxi Driver and Goodfellas were less softballs than soft soap, with reporters as interested in Scorsese’s favorite food — his mother’s lasagna recipe — as the movies in his peerless filmography.—
Scott Roxborough,
The Hollywood Reporter,
20 Feb. 2024
Noun
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With 64 incense cones, customers will be able to enjoy roughly 640 minutes of lush smells.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
18 Sep. 2025
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Shenkar and others are still figuring out what exactly the connection is between the incense offering and fire worship.—
Sarah Durn,
Popular Science,
17 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The odds are that such sweet talk is going to inevitably run out or at least be intermittent.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
2 Aug. 2025
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From there, according to the report, the sweet talk quickly moves to messaging platforms like WhatsApp, Google Chat or Telegram.—
Sunny Nagpaul,
Fortune,
23 Apr. 2024
Noun
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She was last seen wearing black and red flannel pants, a gray hooded sweatshirt and a hair bonnet.—
Drake Bentley,
jsonline.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Team it with jeans, a flannel, and boots for a late-fall tailgate and early winter get-togethers.—
Clara McMahon,
PEOPLE,
14 Sep. 2025
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Irwin politely refused to accept Tonioli and Hough's adulations, crediting it all to his partner.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
17 Sep. 2025
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Liu, for her part, takes this adulation in stride.—
Brett Berk,
Robb Report,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Butter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/butter. Accessed 25 Sep. 2025.
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