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as in sentimentalism
the state or quality of having an excess of tender feelings (as of love, nostalgia, or compassion)
couldn't stand all the mush in the movie's romantic scenes
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Recent Examples of mush
The picture looks pleasing in a dim room and holds shadow detail in darker scenes, so movies don’t turn into mush.
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PC Magazine, 9 Oct. 2025
The term was shorthand for spending too much time online and letting your brain turn to mush.
—Annabelle Canela, Parents, 5 Sep. 2025
Scientists have finally traced the deadly marine outbreak that wiped out billions of sea stars along the Pacific coast, stretching from Alaska all the way to Mexico, to a stealthy bacterial pathogen that turned these vibrant ocean creatures to mush.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 4 Aug. 2025
Launched at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, the world’s premier motor sport gathering last weekend, the new halo car—which borrows mush of its underpinnings from the Ioniq 5 N—is expected to generate up to 641-hp and hit 0-60 mph in 3.0 seconds flat.
—Peter Lyon, Forbes.com, 20 July 2025
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PC Magazine, 9 Oct. 2025
The term was shorthand for spending too much time online and letting your brain turn to mush.
—Annabelle Canela, Parents, 5 Sep. 2025
Scientists have finally traced the deadly marine outbreak that wiped out billions of sea stars along the Pacific coast, stretching from Alaska all the way to Mexico, to a stealthy bacterial pathogen that turned these vibrant ocean creatures to mush.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 4 Aug. 2025
Launched at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, the world’s premier motor sport gathering last weekend, the new halo car—which borrows mush of its underpinnings from the Ioniq 5 N—is expected to generate up to 641-hp and hit 0-60 mph in 3.0 seconds flat.
—Peter Lyon, Forbes.com, 20 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mush
Noun
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Examples of insoluble fiber in supplements include cellulose, corn bran, and lignins.—
Merve Ceylan,
Health,
7 Nov. 2025
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Think yellowtail Hamachi crudo in corn milk leche de tigre, ricotta cavatelli with braised beef and lion’s mane mushrooms and za’atar spice butternut squash.—
Nevin Martell,
USA Today,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The Academy historically goes for sentimentalism.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
4 Oct. 2025
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McBride is less interested in exploring another motivation for saving locks of hair: the particular sentimentalism that made people cherish the hair of loved ones, especially those who had died, or of honored forebears.—
Margaret Talbot,
New Yorker,
21 July 2025
Noun
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The swimming pool was covered with leaves and sludge and algae.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
4 Nov. 2025
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This movie oozes style — and actual undead sludge, occasionally — along with Cody’s signature sense of humor.—
Bailey Richards,
PEOPLE,
31 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Dek is the weakest link in his warrior family, and the arrival of their father cements that fact; there is no sentimentality here as the elder predator orders Kwei to kill his brother and be done with him.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
4 Nov. 2025
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The video production is lush, the sentimentality laid on thick — this is a movie that’s far more interested in playing familiar notes about how cinema is magical and storytelling is vital for the already converted than taking a critical look at its subjects.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
24 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Similarly, Arden wanted to rectify a misstep from week six by redoing a raspberry and basil syrup for his raspberry cake.—
Sabrina Weiss,
PEOPLE,
7 Nov. 2025
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The cake is meant to taste like a raspberry sponge soaked in raspberry and basil syrup with mango and passion-fruit ganache in between the layers and covered in buttercream and something that is either actual moss or just looks like moss but tastes like something else.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Mush.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mush. Accessed 21 Nov. 2025.
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