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Recent Examples of curdling
Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 31 Dec. 2025
Note that dairy should always be added at the end of cooking, and the ingredients should never be brought to a boil to prevent curdling.
—Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 3 Dec. 2025
Blood curdling screams and chains scraping against the ground can be heard throughout the prison.
—Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 3 Oct. 2025
The organizers counted down through their bullhorn and the few dozen people let out blood-curdling screams.
—Dominick Williams
august 6, Kansas City Star, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
Six Flags Magic Mountain will fill the summer, fall and winter seasons in 2026 with an entertaining mix of Superman and Harley Quinn, Oktoberfest beers and Bavarian pretzels, killer clowns and blood curdling screams and Santa Claus and faux snow.
—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 31 Dec. 2025
Note that dairy should always be added at the end of cooking, and the ingredients should never be brought to a boil to prevent curdling.
—Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 3 Dec. 2025
Blood curdling screams and chains scraping against the ground can be heard throughout the prison.
—Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 3 Oct. 2025
The organizers counted down through their bullhorn and the few dozen people let out blood-curdling screams.
—Dominick Williams
august 6, Kansas City Star, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for curdling
Noun
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These beers are spontaneously fermented, meaning that no yeast or other microbes are added to the beer by the brewer to cause fermentation.—
Don Tse,
Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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Some Sourdough Breads Sourdough bread goes through a natural fermentation process using wild yeast and bacteria.—
Brandi Jones,
Health,
30 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Investors are exiting BlackRock's fund to rotate into risk-off assets such as gold amid mounting economic uncertainties and signs of souring market sentiment.—
Liz Napolitano,
CNBC,
25 Nov. 2025
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Trump’s attitude toward Putin, however, appeared to be souring.—
Bloomberg,
Fortune,
25 Nov. 2025
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That’s also where the classic debate, clumping vs non-clumping litter, shows up.—
Svetlana Khachiyan,
USA Today,
19 Dec. 2025
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Alzheon's product is meant to keep plaques from forming in the first place, by preventing amyloid proteins from clumping at all.—
Jon Hamilton,
NPR,
29 Oct. 2025
Noun
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McDowell says the disintegration may possibly be due to a debris hit, since internal energy sources, such as fuel and batteries, should have been vented when it was retired.—
Andrew Jones,
Space.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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The billions of dollars of oil sent to Cuba from socialist ally Venezuela saved the island’s economy from total collapse following the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991.—
Patrick Oppmann,
CNN Money,
29 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Anyone who’s survived to 2026 knows the upper class’ fictitious fantasies still carry real, wretched consequences for the rest of us, but Season 4 plays out those ongoing scenarios to the nth degree, while condensing them into an appreciable narrative arc.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
11 Jan. 2026
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Campaigns for special elections are sprints, condensing what typically occurs over the better part of a year into no more than 56 days.—
Mark Pazniokas,
Hartford Courant,
6 Jan. 2026
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The below-freezing temperatures in Metro Detroit are especially hard on people who are homeless.—
Julia Avant,
CBS News,
27 Jan. 2026
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The Memphis area is not expected to get above freezing temperatures for multiple days, so the snow on the ground and on roadways might hang around for a while.—
Brooke Muckerman,
Memphis Commercial Appeal,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Curdling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curdling. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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