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The two characters - long-standing icons of the games - are martial artists who trained under the same teacher before their relationship went sour.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

There is something quite cruel and contrived in how Mr. Rock puts his protagonist through trials to serve his superficial Hollywood fable about the high price and sour smell of success.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Just before everything came together, I folded in sour cream, infusing a bit of tang to balance the sweet.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

Social media influencer Yoatzi Castro was celebrating a friend’s birthday at Disneyland, snacking on churros and riding Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters, when the celebratory mood turned sour.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026

I make sour lips and hold the trombone up, slide in position.

From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari

For the rest of us, however, inflation may leave a sourer taste.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2022

But in two self-portraits, featuring the artist cradling an old-time painter’s palette, you also sense a sourer side.

From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2021

Compared with punchier, sourer, more cynical sitcoms—from All in the Family to Seinfeld to The Office—that found humor in humanity’s bad behavior, Friends was smiley and conflict-averse to the point of being featherweight.

From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2014

But starting today, in New York's Times Square, the American flag will have a distinctly sourer appearance.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 1, 2014

Matthew had a curious trick of curtailing his phrases as his temper waxed sourer.

From Great Uncle Hoot-Toot by Mrs. Molesworth

It’s a return to innocence — a gustatory reminder of those carefree childhood moments when I indulged in the sourest of sour treats to my heart’s content.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2025

"Has that not just left the sourest taste in the mouth at the end of this international summer? I'm dumbfounded," said England all-rounder Georgia Elwiss on BBC Test Match Special.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2022

Filipino cooking is among the world’s brightest, sweetest, sourest, and funkiest of world cuisines; by comparison, almost any other food seems bland.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 19, 2018

But it is Cézanne’s treatment of Hortense’s mouth — surely the sourest and meanest in the history of portraiture — that is truly riveting.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2018

Our company made the sourest faces in the world, when they learned that the old clergyman was to be within hearing.

From Father Brighthopes An Old Clergyman's Vacation by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge

Two journalists settled onto barstools beneath signs for pilsners and cherry sours.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

Plus, Trump sours on his Homeland Security secretary, and celebrities get romantic with private-equity guys.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

What follows is a tale of tension, deception and a forbidden love that sours, reminiscent of Brontë novels.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

Everything reasonable from the first half quickly sours.

From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2026

I wish I could take the words back as Soojin’s expression instantly sours.

From "Amina's Voice" by Hena Khan

Foreign investors soured on Indonesia this year, in part due to broader risk-off sentiment dimming the appeal of emerging markets but also because of investability and transparency concerns raised by credit agencies and index providers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

But experts say Malaysian attitudes towards migrants, particularly the Rohingya, soured during the Covid-19 pandemic when they became targets of misinformation about the disease.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

As the first section of the media conference, which is allowed to be broadcast live, was ending, the mood soured.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Fourteen years later, Graham returns to Salzburg as an attorney, after the program has matured, to discover something has soured.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

He’d figure out what had soured the air, and he’d put it right.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez

That conflict has sent the cost of petrol - and in particular diesel - skyrocketing, souring his standing with the American public.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

The junk-bond market is also one of the best early signals of a souring economy, since low-rated borrowers feel stress first.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

Samsung Electronics stock had its worst day in three weeks on Monday as investors reacted to its shareholder-return plan, souring the mood for other memory-chip making rivals.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026

Buffett said his decision to no longer give to the Gates Foundation wasn’t based on a souring of his relationship with Gates, or revelations relating to Gates’s ties with Jeffrey Epstein.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

‘Oh, no, no. Other babies can tell you whether it’s gas or a pin, or milk souring on them. But he’s a real Silsbee, and they never do, you know.’

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes