sour
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“It’s hot, it’s cold, it’s crispy, it’s also supple. There’s spice, but then it has sour cream that calms it. It’s a very complete experience.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
When I craved manti, small beef dumplings usually doused in sour cream, I was directed by a local to Bitez Mantici in the Bitez neighborhood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Just before everything came together, I folded in sour cream, infusing a bit of tang to balance the sweet.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
Dessert featured the two leaders and their fellow diners tucking into vanilla crémeux with sour cherry confit, with an accompanying ice cream "made with harvested White House honey".
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
I began to chuckle, then caught myself as Dovid shot me a sour look.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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
For the sour element, lime juice is the classic choice, but lemon, grapefruit, sourer oranges, or any other mouth-puckering, citrusy fruit you have on hand would work too.
From Slate ● May 22, 2020
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
A sourer Lady Bountiful never set forth upon an errand of mercy.
From Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Martin Ross
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
But it is Cézanne’s treatment of Hortense’s mouth — surely the sourest and meanest in the history of portraiture — that is truly riveting.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2018
I am afraid the sourest hang longest on the tree.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor
Two journalists settled onto barstools beneath signs for pilsners and cherry sours.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
The positions are part of a monthslong wager designed to pay off if the hype around artificial intelligence sours.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 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 wish I could take the words back as Soojin’s expression instantly sours.
From "Amina's Voice" by Hena Khan
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
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
The Navatek founder, Loui, had long since soured on his chosen successor.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
Investors piled back into the dollar—and out of gold—as a deterioration in the Middle East conflict and tech leaders’ doomsday warnings about AI soured risk sentiment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
He’d figure out what had soured the air, and he’d put it right.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
The junk-bond market is also one of the best early signals of a souring economy, since low-rated borrowers feel stress first.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 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
Maybe they’re souring on the markets they see.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Warren Buffett said his decision was not based on a souring of his relationship with Bill Gates or revelations about Gates’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
‘Oh, no, no. Other babies can tell you whether it’s gas or a pin, or milk souring on them. But he’s a real Silsbee, and they never do, you know.’
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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"The Sun Rising" by John Donne
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