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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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Better Balanced Blood Sugar The fermentation process used to make sourdough produces organic acids, such as lactic and acetic acids, which help slow the absorption of starch in the digestive tract.—
Jillian Kubala,
Health,
6 Nov. 2025
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Sourdough gets its signature flavor and texture from fermentation with wild yeasts and lactic acid bacteria.—
Morgan Pearson,
Verywell Health,
5 Nov. 2025
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
Verb
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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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The iceberg could be between days and weeks from disintegration, scientists say.—
Brie Stimson,
FOXNews.com,
10 Jan. 2026
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State capacity has eroded alongside economic collapse, mass migration and social disintegration.—
Cristina Guevara,
Chicago Tribune,
7 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 strikes have left tens of thousands of people across the country without power or heating amid freezing winter temperatures.—
Kosta Gak,
CNN Money,
9 Jan. 2026
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Typically, temperatures should be just above freezing for the beginning of January.—
Karen Carter,
CBS News,
8 Jan. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Curdling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curdling. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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