curdles

verb

present tense third-person singular of curdle
1
as in sours

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as in clumps

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  1. sours
  2. clumps
  3. condenses
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  • Hand someone an agent that is not wired to the right sources and the output will be poor, which sours both users and the team leads who support them.
    — Jason Andersen, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
  • After a betrayal drives them apart and sours their relationship, the best friends become estranged from each other.
    — Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026
Definition of sours
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  • Dividing clumps every few years in early spring also maintains their vigor.
    — SJ McShane, Martha Stewart, 11 July 2026
  • Like generations of potential treatments before it, KRSA-028 is designed to break down a protein called amyloid that clumps up in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients.
    — Allison DeAngelis, STAT, 18 Feb. 2026
Definition of clumps
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  • Prioritise, which uses AI to surface your most important notifications first, and Summarise, which condenses long chat threads into a quick summary without opening the app.
    — Janhoi McGregor, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026
  • Belmont says the facility would generate enough heat to raise nighttime temperatures by eight to 12 degrees, irrevocably shifting the dew point, the temperature at which water condenses.
    — Mary Jane Gibson, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2026
Definition of condenses
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