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
With Musk out of Trump’s good graces, Bezos now has an opening to build on months of work to curry the president’s favor.
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Sylvan Lane, The Hill, 6 June 2025
Donalds has been endorsed by Trump, but the governor and first lady met with Trump last weekend at the president's International golf club in West Palm Beach to try to curry his favor.
—Rebecca Falconer, Axios, 6 Mar. 2025
The deal with Burnley is also a potential opportunity for X to curry favour with advertisers after a rocky spell for the platform and its owner.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 18 July 2025
As Van Helsing, Titus Welliver gives a commanding, dead-eyed and stern performance while Brady Hepner as older son Max curries our sympathies for having to endure the tyranny of an obsessed father.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 10 July 2025
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Sylvan Lane, The Hill, 6 June 2025
Donalds has been endorsed by Trump, but the governor and first lady met with Trump last weekend at the president's International golf club in West Palm Beach to try to curry his favor.
—Rebecca Falconer, Axios, 6 Mar. 2025
The deal with Burnley is also a potential opportunity for X to curry favour with advertisers after a rocky spell for the platform and its owner.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 18 July 2025
As Van Helsing, Titus Welliver gives a commanding, dead-eyed and stern performance while Brady Hepner as older son Max curries our sympathies for having to endure the tyranny of an obsessed father.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 10 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for curry
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When Sunday ended, supremacy was restored – the Dodgers were back in first place in the NL West, and the Padres were licking their wounds, wondering what just happened.—
Dan Freedman,
Forbes.com,
19 Aug. 2025
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The little girl licks butter off a spoon, gets a bottle full of bone broth and uses her four teeth to gum ribeye steak.—
Deirdre Bardolf,
FOXNews.com,
18 Aug. 2025
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Although Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not said when troops would enter Gaza City, his country’s forces have continued to pound the area, killing dozens in recent days.—
Jeronimo Gonzalez,
semafor.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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Get aligned and intentional before pounding the keyboard.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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Some places in Milwaukee received over a foot of rain, NWS says David Clarey Two-day rain totals in and near Milwaukee reached over 12 inches in several locations, as a weekend storm battered the area and led to historic flooding.—
Jack Albright,
jsonline.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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Hand battered chicken tenders with pickles, Tanker sauce and Frites Street steak fries.—
Endia Fontanez,
AZCentral.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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Usually, when one partner lashes out, the other responds in kind.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
16 Aug. 2025
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However the first day of closing arguments – which are expected to last multiple days – was cancelled as a major rainstorm lashed the city.—
Nectar Gan,
CNN Money,
13 Aug. 2025
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Extraterrestrial Easter Eggs and Fun Facts – Uncover the references and characters from some of your favorite Pixar films hidden throughout Elio, along with other fun facts.—
John Archer,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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From a sniping position, Hughes fired a fatal shot and then walked back to his truck hidden in a nearby field, investigators said.—
Caleb Lunetta,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Aug. 2025
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The game is a gonzo Kojima production through and through, tonally whipping between self-serious conversations about the nature of war and patriotism, and villains who can shoot lighting from their hands or morph into a swarm of bees.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
22 Aug. 2025
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Like many proud dads in the early 2000s, Cooper Manning often whipped out the camcorder to document his three children — May, Arch and Heid — growing up.—
Grace Raynor,
New York Times,
20 Aug. 2025
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The episode feinted toward genuine rapprochement before yanking the rug out, leaving the Gang pelted with an industrial-grade indoor blizzard and then happily hucking rocks at passing trains, as was Mac and Charlie's childhood tradition.—
Dennis Perkins,
EW.com,
10 July 2025
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His Panthers took the suggestion to heart, won the game, 2-0, and tied this NHL second round series, 2-2. Florida and goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky had allowed 13 goals the first three games of the series while the Cats had pelted 11 goals into the Maple Leafs’ net.—
Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
12 May 2025
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Russia has a 50-year goal, to re-unite parts of the old Soviet Union; Ukraine has a more immediate goal, to stop the war and not give up any territory to do so.—
Richard Stengel,
Time,
16 Aug. 2025
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In 2024-2025 the lodge stayed open for the winter, doing events like winemaker dinners.—
Michael Goldstein,
Forbes.com,
16 Aug. 2025
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“Curry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curry. Accessed 26 Aug. 2025.
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