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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
The idyllic view complements the property’s coffee drink, a house blend of Thai-origin coffee with rice milk and mint-and-caramel syrup.
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Chris Dong, Travel + Leisure, 24 Oct. 2024
Another bonus: If that oil or sticky syrup spills, the turntable will keep the mess contained.
—Amy Panos, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Oct. 2024
Travelers will go through the full maple syrup making process and get to sample different syrup grades.
—Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Oct. 2024
Orange peel: Adding orange peel to the syrup helps emphasize the flavor of the orange liqueur in the cocktail.
—Elizabeth Nelson, Southern Living, 5 Oct. 2024
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Chris Dong, Travel + Leisure, 24 Oct. 2024
Another bonus: If that oil or sticky syrup spills, the turntable will keep the mess contained.
—Amy Panos, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Oct. 2024
Travelers will go through the full maple syrup making process and get to sample different syrup grades.
—Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Oct. 2024
Orange peel: Adding orange peel to the syrup helps emphasize the flavor of the orange liqueur in the cocktail.
—Elizabeth Nelson, Southern Living, 5 Oct. 2024
See all Example Sentences for syrup
Recent Examples of Synonyms for syrup
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Of course, anyone with a low tolerance for sugary sweet, sometimes sticky sentimentality would want to suck on a pack of lemons afterwards.Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
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Peels back the layers of sentimentality surrounding panda conservation, revealing the unsettling realities that hinder its primary objective: protecting the species from human ambitions.Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 28 Oct. 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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The next few songs strand us on a mountaintop of sentimentalism, while subtly rebuking race and genre lines.Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
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The cerebral cortex is the brain’s outermost layer and is involved in many of the higher functions of the human brain including memory, learning, reasoning, problem-solving, and emotions..Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 6 Nov. 2024
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Election seasons often evoke a mix of emotions, ranging from hope for the future to intense worry over what may come.Luciana Paulise, Forbes, 5 Nov. 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 21 Nov. 2024.
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