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Recent Examples of curdle
This is going to curdle the dynamics for the rest of the season.
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Tom Smyth, Vulture, 31 July 2025
But a major investment in free-agent starter Corbin Burnes has already curdled, and general manager Mike Hazen could recoup a good bit of talent in a seller’s market this month.
—The Athletic Mlb Staff, New York Times, 8 July 2025
This seeming paradise of capitalism soon curdles into a prison that strips the survivors of their humanity, yet at the same time Romero never forgets the humanity that the mass of zombies once had.
—James Grebey, Time, 20 June 2025
Wife guy, always a little mocking, curdled into the plainly pejorative.
—Jeremy Gordon, The Atlantic, 9 June 2025
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Tom Smyth, Vulture, 31 July 2025
But a major investment in free-agent starter Corbin Burnes has already curdled, and general manager Mike Hazen could recoup a good bit of talent in a seller’s market this month.
—The Athletic Mlb Staff, New York Times, 8 July 2025
This seeming paradise of capitalism soon curdles into a prison that strips the survivors of their humanity, yet at the same time Romero never forgets the humanity that the mass of zombies once had.
—James Grebey, Time, 20 June 2025
Wife guy, always a little mocking, curdled into the plainly pejorative.
—Jeremy Gordon, The Atlantic, 9 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for curdle
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Sales collapsed, relationships soured and internal blame escalated.—
Thomas Lim,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Trump appointed Powell to lead the Federal Reserve in 2017, but their relationship soured due to Powell's decisions on interest rates.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Sep. 2025
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Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin play estranged old friends who reconnect at the funeral of a mutual friend, only to realize that their friend's dead husband was really the villain in all their lives.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
12 Sep. 2025
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So how does Fernanda end up bound on the floor of a deserted cabin, held hostage by one of her teachers and estranged from Annelise?—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
11 Sep. 2025
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For instance, the study cites a 2017 paper that estimated that one million pumps would have to be deployed annually for 10 years to thicken just 10 percent of the Arctic Ocean ice—a number that is nearly impossible to deploy, Siegert and his co-authors write.—
Alec Luhn,
Scientific American,
11 Sep. 2025
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Mashing a portion of the chickpeas offers a pleasant variance in texture and helps thicken the sauce; a little yogurt brings everything together.—
The New York Times News Service Syndicate,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Sep. 2025
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The NewCows the drones brought us were odd animals, and even odder once clumped together in a herd.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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On impact, the particles clump together, blocking the flow of liquids and ions.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Curdle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curdle. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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