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souring

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verb

present participle of sour

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for souring
Verb
  • The prequel will introduce his family and girlfriend and the events that led up to his victory, notorious for angering the Capitol elite.
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Reports suggest that some Republican lawmakers are frustrated with Musk’s bluster and that the DOGE approach to slashing the federal bureaucracy is angering constituents and making lawmakers less popular in their districts.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The reports included accounts of both Jewish and Muslim students dealing with profound grief over the deaths of loved ones, concerns for their safety and feelings of alienation and academic censorship.
    Jeff Winter, CNN Money, 2 May 2025
  • That sense of alienation, that sense of a slight remove, something bubbling under the surface—that’s as New York a story as glamour or whatever else.
    Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • But in the interest of not completely alienating customers with incessant, irrelevant, or personally offensive ads, the social media company is giving users the ability to block advertisers for a year.
    Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 14 Mar. 2025
  • No filmmaker was better-equipped to capture the institutional failures of our economic collapse in 2007-08, as Soderbergh has always been pre-occupied by the alienating relationship between our economic systems and his characters.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 14 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Court records offer a window into the family discord that marked the suspect’s youth, including his parents’ messy divorce and allegations of verbal and emotional abuse.
    Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2025
  • The former New England Patriots coach began dating the television presenter in 2007, one year after his divorce from ex-wife Debby Clarke.
    Rebecca Aizin, People.com, 21 May 2025
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“Souring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/souring. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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