sourness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sourness
Noun
  • Support workers before, during and after incivility incidents.
    Carol Leaman, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
  • This year's trip to Thailand was an exercise in incivility and taboo-breaking, a cacophonous symphony of troubled souls colliding amid Mai Tais and monkeys.
    Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • How Long Does Recovery From A Groin Strain Take? The recovery period depends on the grade and severity.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • When comparing 80-degree Fahrenheit days to days in the 40s, there was a 40 to 45% increase in the frequency or severity of sleep apnea.
    Matthew Glasser, ABC News, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • Some parents worry that Alexa's high tolerance for rudeness instills poor behavior in their kids, according to Quartz.
    Emily Forlini, PC Magazine, 22 Apr. 2025
  • In many workplaces—where candor is praised but sometimes mistaken for rudeness—the line between authenticity and tact becomes incredibly thin.
    Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In our experience we were met with outright hostility for our Christian beliefs.
    BJ, Denver Post, 3 July 2025
  • But these weaknesses stem largely from underfunding and political hostility – not from any intrinsic flaw in the model.
    Sumit Agarwal, The Conversation, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • Though Trump is backing away from Putin in public, he’s never specifically projected anger about the paused weapons for Ukraine.
    Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 9 July 2025
  • His work showed that emotions like anger, fear, joy, and sadness appear on our faces in the same way across cultures.
    Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • In spite of SSDs capturing market share due to speed and efficiency, their higher cost per terabyte continues to make HDDs indispensable for large-scale storage.
    Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
  • However, that’s the extent of its meta-textual prowess, in spite of its ceaseless references to Tarantino.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 26 June 2025
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“Sourness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sourness. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.

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