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The latest market action leaves Kaiser wary, particularly given the so-far fairly sour reaction to the current corporate reporting season.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

In contrast, their ability to detect salty and sour flavors remained largely unaffected.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

There are, of course, soups where acidity is built in earlier: Chinese hot-and-sour soups, borscht and various Eastern European sour soups all have their own traditions and techniques.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

She set off after midnight from her village in central Ukraine to reach Kyiv before dawn and sell milk, sour cream, butter and cottage cheese from her own cows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

I have to find a new name for her, since her face doesn’t look nearly so sour these days and the bitterness is gone.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

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

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2022

Pickle flavor hits all the right notes for people — especially those under 40 — who are looking for bigger, bolder, brighter and sourer flavors, food and beverage researchers said.

From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2022

We are realistic about the fact that the national environment is sourer now than it was a few months ago.

From Slate ● Nov. 21, 2021

Now three decades old, the unused vacuum cleaners still bristle with the glory of newness, though the sculpture's beatification of consumer commodities tastes even sourer in our more ecologically minded age.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 25, 2014

And each time Zilla had looked sourer than ever and grunted more contemptuously.

From Love of Life and Other Stories by Charles Livingston Bull

"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

Perhaps the sourest note came from ABC with word that it’s canceling “Nashville” after four seasons.

From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2016

"Morgans" does bear the distinction of boasting the sourest cast ever assembled outside of a Lars Von Trier production.

From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2009

Besides, I should always be in the sourest humor: for why is it that the pious and the devotional are so hard, so repellent, so unsociable?

From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various

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

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 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’m not sure that if we see a labor market that sours that it’s going to revert to traditional gender norms in the home—it might actually accelerate what this study was showing.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026

The question sours in my mouth as he turns back to yanking the rest of the tattered plants.

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina

Wall Street grew more worried over Netflix’s viewership trends on Tuesday, as investors soured on the streaming giant’s sales outlook and stumbles in its advertising business.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 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

Sagging European stocks, weighed down by fiscal and growth fears, seem to have soured the mood.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 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

Pigeon feathers drifted onto the windowsill, and one evening, when I poured milk over my cornflakes, I saw that it had soured.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

But as Sargent started her academic studies in 2023, she noticed many of her classmates were abruptly souring on computer science.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

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

“Bunds have chances to stabilize further ahead of the weekend,” Commerzbank’s Marco Stoeckle says in a note, citing “slightly souring business sentiment in the euro area and slowing supply.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 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

Doubt curls into my stomach, souring it with anxiety.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton