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Yuan decided to surreptitiously install a camera at work, and what it captured made her stomach curdle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

The phrase “more modern ways of thinking” may curdle the blood of the reader, who may brace for Ms. Lutz to inculpate her subject in matters of race, class and gender.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

A practicing Mormon, Coppins had no previous experience with gambling but quickly learned how easily the “joyful naivete” of his initial use “could curdle into delusion and compulsion.”

From Slate ● May 5, 2026

Two Navy sailors, Jefferson Jones and his pal, Sink, have been adrift on a raft for 18 days, long enough for hunger to curdle into imagination.

From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2025

“Ugh," she exclaimed, "that sour face of hers will curdle my food.”

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

Hilarious and incisive, the humor never draws blood, never curdles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026

There may be an undercurrent of gossip, like the hints of discord between Affleck and Leavitt, but nothing that curdles our mood.

From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2025

I’ve seen it over and over in my practice: A gesture that is initially received with intense gratitude curdles into hurt or anger.

From Slate ● Mar. 23, 2025

It turns out you can pay a lot for the privilege of real-time “re-enactments,” and he does, commissioning a series of increasingly elaborate set pieces whose pursuit soon curdles into monomania.

From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2024

And then a wail that curdles my blood and makes my hair stand on end.

From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth

When Megan asked, "Whose first concert is this?" the air curdled with screams.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

A curdled mug of nostalgia for adult-size puppets leading children around candy-hued soundstage sets, “Buddy” is a horror comedy scraped from the fuzzy lining of low-rent kiddie programming.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Mr. Soto has created a comedy that’s frequently smart in its consideration of art, class, commerce and curdled ambition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026

Even as investor sentiment has curdled, TD Cowen believes a sustained appetite for data-center spending could cause Vertiv’s customer orders to accelerate as soon as the fourth quarter.

From Barron's ● Dec. 1, 2025

Mornings, on our way to school, we hopped over curdled puddles of vomit and fetid urine stains on the dirt.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

I called Gao Shanwen back in 2019, early in Xi Jinping’s second term, when disappointment over Beijing’s failure to reform its state sector was curdling into something closer to alarm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

He returned to a hometown that seemed to be developing under that same American planning influence whose reputation was curdling up north.

From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2024

The tagline — “What a guy! What a lug! What a hero! What a bum!” — illustrates the tentative truce between fans and umpires that is always, inevitably, one call from curdling.

From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2024

That queasy, curdling feeling has finally been conquered.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2024

He screamed a blood curdling cry that echoed down the river.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya