bitter
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Argentina and the UK waged a brief but bitter war over the territory in 1982.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
The A-list celebrity couple is now settling in back in Harry's homeland, six years after they stepped down as working royals and left for the United States amid bitter acrimony with his family.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
John Overdeck said his primary concern with regard to the firm was maintaining voting parity with his co-founder David Siegel, with whom he is locked in a bitter feud.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Reporter Ben Glickman details how disagreements over estate planning morphed into a bitter succession drama that is now rankling the board of the company Ford forged.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
She smelled of ash and dust, old cloth and bitter herbs.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
The group said it is also looking to cultural partnerships and activation in the on-premise scene, a strategy that has been central to above-industry growth at smaller peer Campari, maker of bitters Aperol.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
The group behind Aperol and Campari bitters recorded 2.5% organic sales growth in the quarter through June, with its core aperitifs business booking 4% growth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Caporale offers one recipe: “A green tea Old Fashioned, sweetened with honey and flavored with lemon bitters, is spectacular.”
From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2026
“There are places using bitters and different things to make a drink that tastes like an old-fashioned, and that is not what we are doing,” she said.
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2024
Some chocolate had the bitters and you added sugar.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
His face is bitterer than the cold as Miranda asks him how his apartment hunt is going.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2023
That’s a bitter joke, but no bitterer than the tone of the English master’s sweeping historical drama about the slaughter of a group of peaceful labor organizers at a mass protest in 1819.
From Slate ● Dec. 6, 2019
“Information warfare will grow far bitterer, and that’s something we will have to live with during the upcoming period.”
From Washington Times ● Mar. 5, 2018
It’s hard to say which of them produced the bitterer barbs.
From Time ● Sep. 24, 2015
Still, they say the bitterer the medicine the quicker the cure.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
Some of the regime’s bitterest enemies in Miami became its de facto financial supporters as they sent their grandparents money without which they couldn’t survive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
To forget the bitterest chapters of our personal histories can be overwhelmingly tempting when there’s so much to deal with, right in front of us.
From Salon ● May 25, 2026
In 2022 the two men ran one of the bitterest Senate races in recent memory.
From Slate ● Nov. 22, 2024
It had been the NHS’s longest-running and bitterest pay dispute - responsible for hundreds of thousands of cancelled operations and appointments.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2024
I need a mug of the darkest, bitterest coffee I can find, he thought.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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