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acidity

[uh-sid-i-tee] / əˈsɪd ɪ ti /


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Champagne, Cava or Crémant are all excellent choices, their bright acidity making them particularly agreeable partners for creamy chowders and hearty stews.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

The idea was to prevent extreme acidity differences from developing.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

Their discovery centers on a surprisingly overlooked factor called "local pH," which describes the acidity or alkalinity in the immediate surroundings of an electrode.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

There are, of course, soups where acidity is built in earlier: Chinese hot-and-sour soups, borscht and various Eastern European sour soups all have their own traditions and techniques.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

My gut is the sea, roiling and stirring with deep dark acidity and malevolent intent.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

Mother herself, played with benign obliviousness by Carolyn McCormick, utters streams of soothing phrases, ignoring both her husband’s acidities and her children’s increasing discomfort.

From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2014

If peak acidities rather than long-term averages are what matters most, natural variability could make things worse.

From Economist ● Jul. 1, 2010

The most celebrated is Dorothy Parker, essentially a short-story writer whose glib acidities at and near the Algonquin Round Table gave her a legendary reputation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Percy Hammond: "Excepting the soft acidities of Mr. Strachey's investigation, it is the most entertaining, so far as we know, of the impudent annals of its exemplary topic."

From Time Magazine Archive

I think he dwells a shade too much on her small asperities and acidities, and on that "ton de critique mesquine", which he puts down to her provincialism.

From The Three Brontës by May Sinclair


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