mushy
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Best to ignore happiness surveys like the World Happiness Report or mushy indexes like Gross National Happiness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Cook them for longer than three minutes and they become mushy and clumpy.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
The classic recipe for fish and chips -- white fish deep-fried in batter, chips, and mushy peas, often with tartare sauce on the side -- dates back to the 1860s.
From Barron's ● Apr. 5, 2026
After two days, I’d start eyeing my mushy backside with disdain in restaurant windows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025
What’s the difference between three weeks or three years or even three decades of mushy peas, tapioca, and Depends undergarments?
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
The dope is dopey, and it’s unfortunately only a foray into mushier territory.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
We can understand things about cultural context and these broader, mushier sort of social debates that the A.I. is just nowhere close to understanding.
From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2022
When the film was released, some critics objected to what was seen as its softer, mushier side, which feels like critic-speak for the fact that it features a woman.
From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2022
The face buttons are also quite small but tactile and clicky, while the D-pad is accurate enough despite being a little mushier than I’d prefer.
From The Verge ● Jan. 21, 2022
Cordelia is becoming mushier and mushier, I think.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
They seem as withdrawn as Simon, not wanting to call attention to themselves with anything but the mushiest phrases and most reticent rhymes — a timidity that lets the ear write them off as unimportant.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2019
If you’re tuned in to Stevie’s sonic language, his mushiest moments harbor myriad possibilities.
From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2016
And at Sunday night’s 57th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, the proceedings didn’t feel like a singalong trophy contest so much as a race to pop music’s mushiest, most self-important middle.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2015
Last week one of the chilliest, dreariest; mushiest winters in years was refusing to let go.
From Time Magazine Archive
And THEN—THEN Anne became the mushiest thing I ever saw!
From Sisters by Kathleen Thompson Norris
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