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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
Granola bars Many granola bars are loaded with syrup, honey or sugar as primary sweeteners and often don't include enough fiber, protein or healthy fat to slow digestion, so the sugars hit the bloodstream fast.
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Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 9 Oct. 2025
It is piled like a crunchy cloud atop fresh Cretan mizithra cheese and a mix of sheep and goat graviera, a hard yellow cheese from the Peloponnese, and drizzled with local honey syrup.
—Katherine Whittaker, Saveur, 9 Oct. 2025
But a few black and white directors used chocolate syrup instead.
—Mark Hay, Popular Science, 9 Oct. 2025
Raw sugar is added, heated to make a syrup, and, finally, strained.
—Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 7 Oct. 2025
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Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 9 Oct. 2025
It is piled like a crunchy cloud atop fresh Cretan mizithra cheese and a mix of sheep and goat graviera, a hard yellow cheese from the Peloponnese, and drizzled with local honey syrup.
—Katherine Whittaker, Saveur, 9 Oct. 2025
But a few black and white directors used chocolate syrup instead.
—Mark Hay, Popular Science, 9 Oct. 2025
Raw sugar is added, heated to make a syrup, and, finally, strained.
—Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 7 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for syrup
Noun
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The emotions that drive decisions at the top of the free-agent market — sentimentality, desperation, urgency — are dulled by the organization’s adherence to process.—
Patrick Mooney,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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This morning, sentimentality keeps you from seeing a situation clearly.—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
15 Oct. 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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Thus, current fears reinforce a pre-existing localism, and infuse it with new and intense emotions.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
18 Oct. 2025
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Yet neuroscience shows us that perception is biased, emotions hijack reasoning, and threat‑detection systems, like the amygdala, can overreact.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
18 Oct. 2025
Noun
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At the same time, no one in metal was funnier, more in touch with his own bathos, more post–Spinal Tap, in a sense, than Ozzy, especially in his shambling-paterfamilias incarnation on MTV’s reality show The Osbournes.—
James Parker,
The Atlantic,
12 Sep. 2025
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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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Though the song’s premise has potential to veer into overly-sentimental sappiness, the song’s rich portrayal of key memories keeps it feeling like a vulnerable but respectful tribute.—
Jessica Nicholson,
Billboard,
22 Sep. 2025
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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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“Syrup.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/syrup. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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