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Recent Examples of curry Cheap meal option: Grab the Cary Tom, Ga, Dau Hu curry with tofu for $11.95. Mari Pressley, Charlotte Observer, 8 May 2025 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. 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 See All Example Sentences for curry
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Verb
  • 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
  • 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
Verb
  • On Friday, torrential rain pounded the region, causing the Guadalupe River in Kerr County to rise 26 feet in just 45 minutes -- the second-highest on record, officials said .
    ABC News, ABC News, 7 July 2025
  • For the first time since the storms began pounding Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott said there were 41 people confirmed to be unaccounted for across the state and more could be missing.
    Brit Morse, Fortune, 7 July 2025
Verb
  • Floodwaters in the area had swept through and battered several youth camps on the river banks — including Camp Mystic, the summer camp where they were headed.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 7 July 2025
  • The company took over operations at the 44-story art deco skyscraper in 2023 after the previous owner, battered by the post-pandemic office market, surrendered control in late 2022 to its lender Apollo Global Management.
    Brian J. Rogal, Chicago Tribune, 6 July 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • The president also lashed out at economists who predicted his administration’s tariffs could cause a recession.
    Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 28 June 2025
Verb
  • The green laser shows you where dust might be hiding on your floors, and the LCD screen will tell you about the particle sizes down to the micron.
    Nena Farrell, Wired News, 8 July 2025
  • Such a deal is not going to bring about North Korea’s denuclearization, of course, and Pyongyang will likely attempt to cheat by hiding some of its nuclear facilities.
    ANDREI LANKOV, Foreign Affairs, 8 July 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • 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
Verb
  • When a motorcade of DHS agents was executing a search warrant on the property, a massive gathering of protesters waving Mexican flags tried to intercept a part of the convoy by pelting some of the vehicles with rocks and shattering windshields in the process.
    Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 11 July 2025
  • Against a backdrop of corporatized Pride Month mega-events that pelt you with free rainbow canteens and bad music, this was much more authentic and communal.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 25 June 2025
Verb
  • Wear comfortable shoes, as much of your exploring will probably be done on foot.
    New York Times, New York Times, 10 July 2025
  • In complex or regulated environments, speed matters, but so does cross-functional orchestration that accounts for the nuances of the situation.
    Gary Drenik, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025

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“Curry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curry. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.

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