sour
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"Absolutely terrible. Shocking. That is not sour grapes."
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
Choose whatever farmers market flavor is calling to you—apricot, sour cherry, blackberry and red plum would all be excellent this time of year.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
Middle Eastern crude is mostly what traders call medium sour grade, and before the war most of it found its way to refineries in Asia.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
The notice of violation was issued on July 12th, after the agency received more than 40 public complaints of rotten, sour, garbage-type odors in the area.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
The animals had so much to eat they could afford to ignore food that tended to be sour.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
For the rest of us, however, inflation may leave a sourer taste.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2022
Pickle flavor hits all the right notes for people — especially those under 40 — who are looking for bigger, bolder, brighter and sourer flavors, food and beverage researchers said.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2022
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
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
"Sits sourer to think we were suckered into it."
From Rebel Spurs by Norton, Andre
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
The sourest, meanest mouth in the history of portraiture.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 23, 2020
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
There is an old Spanish proverb—"The sweetest wine makes the sourest vinegar," and so it will be with us.
From A Source Book of Australian History by Swinburne, Gwendolen H.
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
And new entities are struggling to gain traction as investor sentiment sours.
From Barron's ● Feb. 15, 2026
For Bessent, taking a strong position on who Trump should select for the job risks saddling him with the blame if Trump sours on his choice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025
I wish I could take the words back as Soojin’s expression instantly sours.
From "Amina's Voice" by Hena Khan
In his program notes, Everton CEO Angus Kinnear declared that he was "happily dissatisfied" with the campaign - an odd turn of phrase at a confusing moment that quickly soured after a 3-1 defeat.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
It first soured over a decade ago, during the tenure of athletic director Pat Haden.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
The alliance has genuinely soured in recent months.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026
That venture soon soured because the scandal-prone Portnoy was, apparently, not a good fit for the highly regulated gambling industry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
His expression soured ever so slightly, as though he’d just swallowed some grounds with his already-bitter cup of coffee.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
Buffett said his decision to no longer give to the Gates Foundation wasn’t based on a souring of his relationship with Gates, or revelations relating to Gates’s ties with Jeffrey Epstein.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
But it clearly shows that investors aren’t souring on South Korean chip companies just yet, even in the face of more volatility and AI-bubble fears.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
Warsh quit in 2011 after souring on the bond buying and has spent the years since arguing the Fed took both innovations too far.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
Each new alarm like this elicits anxieties and murmurs that souring private credit is about to become the new subprime mortgage crisis.
From Barron's ● May 30, 2026
As dirty as he was, he almost hated to scrub away the smells of musky tiger cub, souring goat’s milk, thick creek mud, and salty Sunderbans water.
From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins
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"The Sun Rising" by John Donne
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