as in butter
excessive praise
the magazine's profiles of showbiz celebrities tend to be pure taffy
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Recent Examples of taffy
Someone is then shot with a harpoon, only to have their guts pulled like taffy from the wound.
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David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2025
Boucher was on the hunt for Abba-Zaba, a chewy taffy bar with a real peanut butter center.
—Jessica Ma, Sacramento Bee, 20 July 2024
The texture ranges in consistency from an oil-like substance to a syrupy sap or even a sticky taffy.
—Jalen Williams, Detroit Free Press, 9 July 2024
The Hunter, by Tana French Tana French stretches the tension – and the mystery genre – like taffy in her return to the ethically murky Irish village of Ardnakelty.
—Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Mar. 2024
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David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2025
Boucher was on the hunt for Abba-Zaba, a chewy taffy bar with a real peanut butter center.
—Jessica Ma, Sacramento Bee, 20 July 2024
The texture ranges in consistency from an oil-like substance to a syrupy sap or even a sticky taffy.
—Jalen Williams, Detroit Free Press, 9 July 2024
The Hunter, by Tana French Tana French stretches the tension – and the mystery genre – like taffy in her return to the ethically murky Irish village of Ardnakelty.
—Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for taffy
butter
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The mix does include some peanuts, but there are also Cajun-style corn sticks, roasted corn, almonds, honey roasted sesame sticks, and my favorite component—butter toffee peanuts.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
3 Oct. 2025
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Highlights include a shareable chef's whim butter board, baked crab dip, snow crab avocado stack, short rib mac and cheese, salt and vinegar fish and chips, bayou baby back ribs and prime grade filet mignon.—
Endia Fontanez,
AZCentral.com,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Taffy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/taffy. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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