sour
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Toss them with egg noodles and add a swirl of sour cream or labneh and you have something that starts edging toward weeknight stroganoff.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
As the second half wore on, the resilient visitors actually missed the game's two best chances through Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall and Brennan Johnson, while the mood became increasingly sour as nerves and anxiety grew.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
It’s easy to imagine how quickly a workplace relationship can sour over something as simple as: Did they use AI to make that?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Cats are already known for lacking a "sweet tooth," but this marks the first recorded case in felids involving the inactivation of genes tied to sour taste perception.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
I grab a low-hanging branch, heavy with tiny apples that are so sour, they make your lips pucker if you dare eat them.
From "Zara’s Rules for Record-Breaking Fun" by Hena Khan
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
Photograph: Clive Mason/Getty Images This Queens Park Rangers vintage is now officially corked, the season turning sourer than the cheap plonk served up by the hapless Swindon sommelier John Gorman in 1993.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 14, 2012
He was sourer still when I asked to see his master, and he shook his head at me, looking me up and down as if I were some undesirable.
From Dead Men's Money by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher
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
Perhaps the sourest note came from ABC with word that it’s canceling “Nashville” after four seasons.
From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2016
Equally abhorrent to rational piety, if less shocking, is that air of sourest sanctity which the groups now passing us bring with them out from the meeting-houses.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 by Various
Everything reasonable from the first half quickly sours.
From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2026
The clatter of cutlery as an atmosphere sours over dinner.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026
Renowned photographer Randy and his playwright husband Jack are vacationing on the Oregon coast, but their trip sours.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2026
And new entities are struggling to gain traction as investor sentiment sours.
From Barron's ● Feb. 15, 2026
I wish I could take the words back as Soojin’s expression instantly sours.
From "Amina's Voice" by Hena Khan
Provisions for credit losses, money set aside to cover the risk of soured loans, totaled C$1.08 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
The trial heard their friendship soured after an unsuccessful attempt by Dennis to sell a fake Rolex given to him by Oladipo.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
But amid the crypto collapse in 2022, NFT sales volumes dived and never recovered as investors soured on the assets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
The trading firm posted its worst month ever in July after bets at Leopold Aschenbrenner’s hedge fund soured.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
At once, the slimy grayish goop—whatever it had been—splattered all over Koffi's legs, and a new foul smell soured the air.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
Japanese investors souring on Treasurys would add to upward pressure on yields, which move inversely to bond prices.
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
Major U.S. tech names are reporting their earnings next week, which could potentially turn the souring mood around.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Many Americans are souring on the technology, but for activists on the front lines, the driving fear is often more dramatic: human extinction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
He was on a roll and was about to say something else; but then, quite suddenly, he stopped, his face souring as if something unpleasant had occurred to him.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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