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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
Instead, find ways to scale back, like ordering a small soda instead of a large at lunch, or asking for fewer pumps of syrup in your morning Starbucks.
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Alice Callahan, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
Before a time when coconut sugar or stevia were easy to find at conventional stores and markets, alternative options were almost exclusively syrups like corn syrup, molasses, maple syrup, and sorghum syrup.
—Catherine Jessee, Southern Living, 9 Jan. 2025
The syrup is categorized into grades, which describe richness in taste and color.
—Lauren O'Connor, Ms, Health, 6 Jan. 2025
In recent years mocktails have evolved beyond simply combining juice, soda, and grenadine thanks to bartenders and producers embracing botanicals, teas, and craft syrups to create complex beverages that put these drinks on par with their spirited counterparts.
—Joseph Hernandez, Bon Appétit, 9 Jan. 2025
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Alice Callahan, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
Before a time when coconut sugar or stevia were easy to find at conventional stores and markets, alternative options were almost exclusively syrups like corn syrup, molasses, maple syrup, and sorghum syrup.
—Catherine Jessee, Southern Living, 9 Jan. 2025
The syrup is categorized into grades, which describe richness in taste and color.
—Lauren O'Connor, Ms, Health, 6 Jan. 2025
In recent years mocktails have evolved beyond simply combining juice, soda, and grenadine thanks to bartenders and producers embracing botanicals, teas, and craft syrups to create complex beverages that put these drinks on par with their spirited counterparts.
—Joseph Hernandez, Bon Appétit, 9 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for syrup
Noun
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Through his long and, at times, controversial F1 career, Briatore has never been one for sentimentality.—
Luke Smith,
The Athletic,
9 Jan. 2025
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Better Man ends on a several notes, some discordant, of forgiveness regarding both father and son, which admittedly tests your tolerance for sentimentality.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
25 Dec. 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
Noun
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The horses typically appear when the brewing giant wants to pull on emotions, feelings of pride, and, occasionally, the funny bone.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
17 Jan. 2025
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In animals, sentience is the capacity to experience sensations and emotions such as pain, pleasure and fear.—
Conor Purcell,
Scientific American,
17 Jan. 2025
Noun
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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 27 Jan. 2025.
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