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soured

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verb

past tense of sour

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for soured
Adjective
  • The relationship with Hamid hardly seems like a love story, but turns sour when Hamid meets Mahnaz’s much younger sister Mehri (Soha Niasti) and rethinks his proposal.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 22 May 2025
  • Highlights include the signature sweet and sour foie gras, ice plant salad, gong bao lobster, and peking duck.
    Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
Verb
  • Madrid were angered by a decision in that game to award Espanyol defender Carlos Romero a yellow card for a 60th-minute challenge on Kylian Mbappe, which was not upgraded to a red card by VAR.
    Guillermo Rai, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
  • That meeting angered Israeli officials, and reportedly Dermer in particular.
    Alex Marquardt, CNN Money, 10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • These innocuous-seeming actions can kindle dry vegetation, potentially spawning a wildfire.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 30 May 2025
  • In the Colorado River Basin, April and May were very dry.
    Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2025
Adjective
  • Stock up: Load up on leafy greens, nuts, seeds, fatty fish, eggs, and unsweetened yogurt.
    Amy Brownstein, Verywell Health, 23 May 2025
  • Be sure to buy unsweetened coconut in large flakes, about one to two inches long.
    Laura Mclively, Mercury News, 20 May 2025
Verb
  • And while Twitter long struggled to turn its influence into a profitable business, the company’s value is more questionable now than ever after Musk’s controversial policies alienated advertisers.
    Clare Duffy, CNN, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Others, however, argue there were plenty of errors made on the campaign trail, from refusing to distance herself from Biden or touting an endorsement from former GOP Representative Liz Cheney, which critics say alienated key Democratic constituencies.
    Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The way the soil responds will give you an idea of whether your soil is acidic, alkaline, or neutral.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 May 2025
  • The acidic soil at Sutton Hoo, which rotted away the wood of the Anglo-Saxon ship and only left impressions of planks and rows of iron rivets, means that many of the bone combs previously found at Sutton Hoo have not been well-preserved, Howarth said.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 24 May 2025
Adjective
  • Azaleas do like an acid soil and grow best when the soil acidity is in the pH range of 4.5 to 5.5.
    Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 May 2025
  • Fluoride also replaces minerals lost from teeth due to acid breakdown, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 15 May 2025
Verb
  • The sketch opened with Mikey Day as Jesus, recreating the scene from the Bible in which Christ visits the temple and gets enraged at seeing money changers transacting business within its walls.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 13 Apr. 2025
  • While there, Jesus visited the temple and enraged upon seeing money changers transacting business within its sacred walls, expelled them all.
    McKinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 12 Apr. 2025
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“Soured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soured. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.

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