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Recent Examples of sourness
And the custardy texture somehow imprints a more pronounced, wholly pleasant sourness.
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Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2026
Salty chips and sour candies Your perception of saltiness and sourness happens a little differently.
—Linda Bartoshuk, The Conversation, 5 Jan. 2026
While sour, of course, is a common descriptor of other pickles in this taste test, the sourness was clearly more concentrated in this jar.
—Catherine Jessee, Southern Living, 2 Jan. 2026
Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2026
Salty chips and sour candies Your perception of saltiness and sourness happens a little differently.
—Linda Bartoshuk, The Conversation, 5 Jan. 2026
While sour, of course, is a common descriptor of other pickles in this taste test, the sourness was clearly more concentrated in this jar.
—Catherine Jessee, Southern Living, 2 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sourness
Noun
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The song has said everything that Ines can’t bring herself to, and her coldness chips away in the days and weeks that follow.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
20 Mar. 2026
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Some of it has to do with the coldness of the skin.—
Stephanie Innes,
AZCentral.com,
5 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Dani’s surliness has evaporated.—
David Wingrave,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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The Dolphins knew in the spring that Jalen Ramsey’s tardiness and surliness did not fit the culture that the organization wanted to build.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
6 Sep. 2025
Noun
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As the incivility and tribalism of our politics increase, the quality of our political discourse decreases accordingly.—
Bradley Gitz,
Arkansas Online,
9 Feb. 2026
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Many in leadership continue to not acknowledge or understand that behaviors such as exclusion, undermining, or chronic incivility can all be examples of bullying and can come at extreme costs.—
Maia Niguel Hoskin,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
Noun
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However, the show downplays the severity of the incident and most crucially the fact that a child was present and injured in the melee.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
24 Mar. 2026
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The record high levels of greenhouse gases in the air are also why so many extreme events, from heat waves to floods, are now occurring with greater regularity and severity.—
Andrew Freedman,
CNN Money,
23 Mar. 2026
Noun
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His smug iciness here would serve him well playing both Patrick Bateman and Bruce Wayne.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
7 Mar. 2026
Noun
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But if there truly is an epidemic of canine defecation in your area, then the solution is not to turn up the rudeness volume, but to appeal to a system or organization that addresses public health or the care of public spaces.—
Judith Martin,
Mercury News,
18 Mar. 2026
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But only those who had been woken up without warning with a degree of rudeness would remember this night when their own time came.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Feb. 2026
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Saura had a large sense of the humor, which struck those who got to know him, belying the sternness of his public visage with his playful banter and frequent chuckle.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
6 Mar. 2026
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Iran war has entered its fifth week with hostilities escalating across the region.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
31 Mar. 2026
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After all, a bit more than a decade later, hostilities would explode anew in the Arab-Israeli War of 1967, during which Nasser shut the canal again.—
Ishaan Tharoor,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
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“Sourness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sourness. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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