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also sirup
as in sentimentality
the state or quality of having an excess of tender feelings (as of love, nostalgia, or compassion)
a television show for toddlers that is nothing more than pure syrup
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Recent Examples of syrup
While coconut cream is typically unsweetened, cream of coconut has added sugar and is processed into a thick, pourable syrup.
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The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2025
Most of it is spent preparing the hibiscus syrup, which yields a large batch that can be also be used in seltzer water or water with a splash of lemon.
—Danielle Dorsey, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2025
Salad With Berries And Bacon Recipe: Make-Ahead Yeast Rolls
Recipe: Classic Coconut Cake
Recipe: Blackberry-Lime Porch Punch
Maple syrup combined with brown sugar, fresh ginger, and cinnamon update the traditional baked ham.
—Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 19 Apr. 2025
The strategic reserve in Quebec stores more syrup than what the US produces in a single year, according to Wild.
—Leigh Waldman, CNN Money, 12 Apr. 2025
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The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2025
Most of it is spent preparing the hibiscus syrup, which yields a large batch that can be also be used in seltzer water or water with a splash of lemon.
—Danielle Dorsey, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2025
Salad With Berries And Bacon Recipe: Make-Ahead Yeast Rolls
Recipe: Classic Coconut Cake
Recipe: Blackberry-Lime Porch Punch
Maple syrup combined with brown sugar, fresh ginger, and cinnamon update the traditional baked ham.
—Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 19 Apr. 2025
The strategic reserve in Quebec stores more syrup than what the US produces in a single year, according to Wild.
—Leigh Waldman, CNN Money, 12 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for syrup
Noun
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Creating character is not among Murphy and Robertson’s strengths, and their pivot to awkward sentimentality throws the whole negotiation into disarray.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2025
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For a lot of Black dads, specifically those of a certain generation, life dealt them an unfairly tough hand, leaving them in a constant state of survival where feelings and sentimentality could be the difference between life and death.—
Ile-Ife Okantah,
Vulture,
17 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The moment when Sean soothes Laszlo’s fears of losing his best human buddy by telling him that the fear of dying just makes every living moment more special — something else a centuries-old vampire wouldn’t understand — tiptoes right up to the edge of sentimentalism.—
Katie Rife,
Vulture,
19 Nov. 2024
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King’s honeyed voiceover begins the film with a kind of sentimentalism about childhood and its innocence.—
Lisa Kennedy,
Variety,
4 July 2024
Noun
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These differences included areas responsible for executive functions like logical reasoning, as well as managing emotions.—
Alice Park,
Time,
16 May 2025
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Scent is one of the most powerful ways to immortalize a moment in time, many thanks to the olfactory system’s direct line to the amygdala and hippocampus (the parts of the brain responsible for emotion and memory).—
Lori Keong,
Architectural Digest,
16 May 2025
Noun
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Elsewhere, a black granite sarcophagus is meant to be an homage to AIDS victims; this, too, empties into bathos.—
Jerry Saltz,
Vulture,
14 June 2024
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Playing with comic bathos is a dangerous game when aiming for sincerity.—
David Benedict,
Variety,
12 Sep. 2024
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The whole thing strikes a less successful balance between Gunn's dark comic side and his inherent sappiness than The Suicide Squad, the best Guardians of the Galaxy movie to not actually feature the Guardians of the Galaxy.—
A.A. Dowd,
Chron,
28 Apr. 2023
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The playful tone, however, oscillates between self-referential nods to the incongruity of people suddenly bursting into song and holiday-movie sentimentality, when either a more bare-knuckled commitment to satire or an unabashed embrace of its sappiness would be in order.—
Brian Lowry,
CNN,
17 Nov. 2022
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“Syrup.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/syrup. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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