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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
Then all that’s left to do is wake, cook, drizzle syrup on top and dive in.
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Karla Walsh, CNN Money, 31 Dec. 2025
Check out the Coconut Wireless (featuring pineapple, coconut, ginger, allspice and almond), the Zero Proof (apple spice, soda water, citrus, cranberry and ginger) or the Pivot (ARU coffee and coconut horchata syrup).
—Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 31 Dec. 2025
And for dessert, there’s the delightful sponge balls called gulab jamun and shahi falooda, a sweet drink mixed with basil seeds, cream and rose syrup.
—John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 30 Dec. 2025
The Parsons family has been making syrup in Charlevoix for five generations.
—Stacy Conde, Midwest Living, 30 Dec. 2025
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Karla Walsh, CNN Money, 31 Dec. 2025
Check out the Coconut Wireless (featuring pineapple, coconut, ginger, allspice and almond), the Zero Proof (apple spice, soda water, citrus, cranberry and ginger) or the Pivot (ARU coffee and coconut horchata syrup).
—Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 31 Dec. 2025
And for dessert, there’s the delightful sponge balls called gulab jamun and shahi falooda, a sweet drink mixed with basil seeds, cream and rose syrup.
—John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 30 Dec. 2025
The Parsons family has been making syrup in Charlevoix for five generations.
—Stacy Conde, Midwest Living, 30 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for syrup
Noun
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As expected, there was precisely zero sentimentality from Quick, who was the Conn Smythe winner during the Kings’ first Stanley Cup title run in 2012 and their starting goalie for their second in 2014 as well.—
Andrew Knoll,
Daily News,
21 Jan. 2026
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John, who plays Mickey’s father in the film, described watching Zelda and Toby inhabit such fraught roles without sentimentality.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
20 Jan. 2026
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
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“Syrup.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/syrup. Accessed 22 Jan. 2026.
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