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also sirup
as in sentimentality
the state or quality of having an excess of tender feelings (as of love, nostalgia, or compassion)
a television show for toddlers that is nothing more than pure syrup
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Recent Examples of syrup
Maple syrup contains around 66% sugar, while honey is made of 80% sugar.
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Jillian Kubala, Health, 3 Mar. 2025
Pumpkin pie spice, pumpkin syrup, pumpkin sauce, milk, matcha
Instructions: To a glass, add your pumpkin syrup to the bottom and drizzle your pumpkin sauce around the inside of the cup.
—Lauryn Jiles, Miami Herald, 3 Mar. 2025
Ask for sugar cookie syrup instead of vanilla syrup.
—Kate Friedman, Glamour, 27 Feb. 2025
Doughnuts, hot cocoa and ice cream drizzled with syrup from the district’s Maple Cafe will be served.
—Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2025
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Jillian Kubala, Health, 3 Mar. 2025
Pumpkin pie spice, pumpkin syrup, pumpkin sauce, milk, matcha
Instructions: To a glass, add your pumpkin syrup to the bottom and drizzle your pumpkin sauce around the inside of the cup.
—Lauryn Jiles, Miami Herald, 3 Mar. 2025
Ask for sugar cookie syrup instead of vanilla syrup.
—Kate Friedman, Glamour, 27 Feb. 2025
Doughnuts, hot cocoa and ice cream drizzled with syrup from the district’s Maple Cafe will be served.
—Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for syrup
Noun
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Gone are the days of sending flowers and jewelry; today’s unique anniversary gifts for him and her focus on personal touches and sentimentality.—
Jené Luciani Sena,
Fox News,
12 Mar. 2025
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The Islanders spent their final game before the trade deadline surrounded by uncertainty and steeped in sentimentality.—
Jerry Beach,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The moment when Sean soothes Laszlo’s fears of losing his best human buddy by telling him that the fear of dying just makes every living moment more special — something else a centuries-old vampire wouldn’t understand — tiptoes right up to the edge of sentimentalism.—
Katie Rife,
Vulture,
19 Nov. 2024
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King’s honeyed voiceover begins the film with a kind of sentimentalism about childhood and its innocence.—
Lisa Kennedy,
Variety,
4 July 2024
Noun
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Does the watering coincide with extreme emotions or stress?—
Maxine Lipner,
Verywell Health,
18 Mar. 2025
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Instead of resisting their feelings of self-doubt, professionals who lean into these emotions may develop stronger interpersonal skills, outperforming their non-imposter peers in collaboration and teamwork.—
Tanya Arturi,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Elsewhere, a black granite sarcophagus is meant to be an homage to AIDS victims; this, too, empties into bathos.—
Jerry Saltz,
Vulture,
14 June 2024
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Playing with comic bathos is a dangerous game when aiming for sincerity.—
David Benedict,
Variety,
12 Sep. 2024
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The whole thing strikes a less successful balance between Gunn's dark comic side and his inherent sappiness than The Suicide Squad, the best Guardians of the Galaxy movie to not actually feature the Guardians of the Galaxy.—
A.A. Dowd,
Chron,
28 Apr. 2023
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The playful tone, however, oscillates between self-referential nods to the incongruity of people suddenly bursting into song and holiday-movie sentimentality, when either a more bare-knuckled commitment to satire or an unabashed embrace of its sappiness would be in order.—
Brian Lowry,
CNN,
17 Nov. 2022
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“Syrup.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/syrup. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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