soupcon

Example Sentences

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The account has gotten widespread attention, in part for mixing its attacks with a soupçon of self-deprecation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

Its curators seek to “reawaken” these items with a dash of technology and a soupçon of sensory overload: touch, smell and sound.

From New York Times • May 9, 2024

What if an autistic person tries to encourage understanding by dispassionately stating facts, and a neurotypical with tremendous certainty spews a series of incorrect takes — with perhaps a soupçon of condescension?

From Salon • Oct. 9, 2022

The film grabs ingredients not only from horror and comedy predecessors, but buddy-cop and cartel-war flicks, martial-arts movies and just a soupçon of Blaxploitation, and stirs them together in a vat of gory goodness.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 2022

“I’m mostly pecans. With just a soupçon of maple sugar.”

From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon