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Recent Examples of Synonyms for curd
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There’s something striking about how Black Mirror, which primarily fixates on near-futuristic tech conceits as a lens through which to unpack human anxieties, has effectively spanned the length of our collective curdling relationship with technology.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2025 -
But their chemistry begins to curdle as Violet begins being irritated and then terrorized by a series of anonymous drops to her phone.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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Rinsing removes excess starch, which helps keep the rice grains separate and fluffy rather than clumping together and forming a gooey mass, Olivia Roszkowski, chef-instructor of Plant-Based Culinary Arts at the Institute of Culinary Education’s New York City campus, tells SELF.—
Audrey Bruno,
SELF,
13 May 2025
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Scientists are inching ever closer to figuring out the biophysical rules that govern how and why those first cells clumped up and stuck together.—
Carrie Arnold,
Quanta Magazine,
21 Apr. 2025
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Beyond terminating studies, federal officials have gummed up the grant-making process by slow-walking payments, delaying grant review meetings and scaling back new grant awards.—
Benjamin Mueller,
New York Times,
4 May 2025
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Other Republican senators have scrambled to find out whether Trump’s federal hiring moratorium would impact air traffic controllers, which could gum up travel around the country.—
Alexander Bolton,
The Hill,
23 Jan. 2025
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It is made in the same general way (and also unsweetened), but the final product gets watered down and then thickened with stabilizers and gums.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 May 2025
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But these latest revelations only thicken the mystery: Who was Joan Didion?—
Leigh Haber,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Apr. 2025
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She is caked in mud with a black eye and a nasty gash on her ankle.—
Jennifer Berry Hawes,
ProPublica,
19 May 2025
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The base also washes itself with 176-degree water so it doesn't get caked in grime and dries the mops with 140-degree heated air.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
2 Apr. 2025
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“Curd.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curd. Accessed 1 Jun. 2025.
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