as in to lick
to strike repeatedly
vowed to curry the hide of the person who stole his wallet
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Recent Examples of curry
At El Celler de Can Roca, a three Michelin-star restaurant in Girona, Spain, the Roca brothers serve a refined langoustine dish infused with saffron and curry oil.
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Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
On the flipside, a boss who constantly introduces new initiatives without addressing burnout or workload concerns — or a worker who never shows much ambition — may not curry much favor within their organization.
—Ashton Jackson, CNBC, 14 Apr. 2025
Ousting a national security adviser so early into his second term would curry unflattering comparisons to his first term, when Trump fired Michael Flynn from the same position after roughly three weeks.
—Brett Samuels, The Hill, 2 Apr. 2025
Then came the online threats Musk’s X poised for ad sales gain on effort to curry Trump favor
for the company.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2025
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Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
On the flipside, a boss who constantly introduces new initiatives without addressing burnout or workload concerns — or a worker who never shows much ambition — may not curry much favor within their organization.
—Ashton Jackson, CNBC, 14 Apr. 2025
Ousting a national security adviser so early into his second term would curry unflattering comparisons to his first term, when Trump fired Michael Flynn from the same position after roughly three weeks.
—Brett Samuels, The Hill, 2 Apr. 2025
Then came the online threats Musk’s X poised for ad sales gain on effort to curry Trump favor
for the company.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for curry
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In the video, the mother dog stays close to her pup, licking him and standing over him protectively.—
Rachael O'Connor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 June 2025
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While her Nickelodeon and Disney peers have seemingly all had at least one major scandal to their names (ranging from incessant twerking and licking unpurchased donuts to near-fatal overdoses), Palmer’s celebrity was, in part, defined by her lack of verifiable scandals.—
Kyle Denis,
Billboard,
25 June 2025
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The left-hander got pounded a year ago and thumped again in his first taste of big-league action for eight runs in five innings against the Washington Nationals.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
26 June 2025
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Kamala Harris pounded Joe Biden over his stances on busing from the 1970s—a long-ago dispute that even became fodder for J.D. Vance in 2024.—
Andrew Yang,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 June 2025
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But the Islamic Republic was badly battered and humiliated.—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
25 June 2025
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But all have been heavily battered by recent Israeli and U.S. military operations.—
Matthew Tostevin
Amir Daftari,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 June 2025
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In one particularly jarring example, under threat of being unplugged, Anthropic’s latest creation Claude 4 lashed back by blackmailing an engineer and threatened to reveal an extramarital affair.—
Thomas Urbain,
Fortune,
29 June 2025
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The president also lashed out at economists who predicted his administration’s tariffs could cause a recession.—
Francesca Chambers,
USA Today,
28 June 2025
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The first iteration of Somni opened in 2018 inside the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills, a restaurant hidden inside of José Andrés’s Bazaar, but closed in 2020 as a pandemic casualty.—
Jeremy Repanich,
Robb Report,
26 June 2025
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Weathered and bumpy, the wall hidden among the surplus clothing stores of the Fashion District was hardly the perfect canvas.—
Hannah Fry,
Los Angeles Times,
26 June 2025
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An Italian meringue involves carefully and slowly drizzling a hot sugar syrup into egg whites while whipping them.—
Susan Selasky,
Freep.com,
3 July 2025
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The comet will also whip by Mars on October 2 at 18 million miles (30 million kilometers) from the red planet.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
3 July 2025
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With his next pitch, Vásquez fired it even more inside, pelting Ohtani’s right thigh with a 94 mph fastball.—
Jack Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
18 June 2025
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Police in riot gear attempting to disperse crowds, pelting them with tear gas, flashbangs and rubber bullets.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
8 June 2025
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See a Live Theater Production When live arts top your list of things to do, Burnsville's Parkway Playhouse is the perfect fit.—
Jennifer Prince,
Southern Living,
28 June 2025
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The way to do it is with judicious use of strong contrast colours, and that’s exactly what Nike has done here, with those pinks, blues and reds underneath the armpits and down the side of the shorts.—
Nick Miller,
New York Times,
28 June 2025
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“Curry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curry. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.
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