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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
And while The Sticky opens with a human body in the barrel of syrup, that didn’t happen in the 2012 heist.
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Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 6 Dec. 2024
To make a Greek yogurt parfait, add other ingredients in layers and finish it off with a small amount of honey or syrup.
—Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 4 Dec. 2024
Other TikTok accounts do the same at similar chains like Starbucks, showing drinks that customers order that aren't on the companies' menus and often contain copious syrups, sugars and sweeteners.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Nov. 2024
Cane syrup: Helps give the caramel its chewy texture and prevents crystallization.
—Pam Lolley, Southern Living, 28 Nov. 2024
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Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 6 Dec. 2024
To make a Greek yogurt parfait, add other ingredients in layers and finish it off with a small amount of honey or syrup.
—Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 4 Dec. 2024
Other TikTok accounts do the same at similar chains like Starbucks, showing drinks that customers order that aren't on the companies' menus and often contain copious syrups, sugars and sweeteners.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Nov. 2024
Cane syrup: Helps give the caramel its chewy texture and prevents crystallization.
—Pam Lolley, Southern Living, 28 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for syrup
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Schmaltz refers to excessive sentimentality or melodrama and is often used for art, movies, music or storytelling purposes.Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 2 Nov. 2024
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By Barry Levitt October 14, 2024 10:31 PM EDT English Teacher, created by Brian Jordan Alvarez, is a show with no interest in sentimentality.Barry Levitt, TIME, 15 Oct. 2024
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The moment when Sean soothes Laszlo’s fears of losing his best human buddy by telling him that the fear of dying just makes every living moment more special — something else a centuries-old vampire wouldn’t understand — tiptoes right up to the edge of sentimentalism.Katie Rife, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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King’s honeyed voiceover begins the film with a kind of sentimentalism about childhood and its innocence.Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 4 July 2024
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Dennis highlighted eight emotions—joy, sadness, disgust, trust, fear, anger, anticipation, and surprise—as part of his toolkit for building an emotional experience.Jay Ganglani, Fortune Asia, 6 Dec. 2024
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In Ross’s hands, the device becomes something overwhelmingly expressive: the images, rather than merely recording Elwood’s emotions, register the cause of those emotions and allow the viewer to partake in his inner world.Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2024
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Elsewhere, a black granite sarcophagus is meant to be an homage to AIDS victims; this, too, empties into bathos.Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 14 June 2024
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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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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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The playful tone, however, oscillates between self-referential nods to the incongruity of people suddenly bursting into song and holiday-movie sentimentality, when either a more bare-knuckled commitment to satire or an unabashed embrace of its sappiness would be in order.Brian Lowry, CNN, 17 Nov. 2022
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“Syrup.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/syrup. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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