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bile

[bahyl] / baɪl /
NOUN
animus
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NOUN
choler
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NOUN
peevishness
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WEAK
affableness




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The bears, which arrived on Thursday, had been kept at one of South Korea's last bear bile farms – sites which have now been banned in the country.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

Towle's family announced her death, from complications related to bile duct cancer that had spread to other parts of her body, on her social media accounts on Thursday.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

These include pathways involving bile acids, NAD-related pathways, gut bacterial metabolites, oxidative stress markers and certain steroids.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

The contest, in a district stretching from lower Manhattan into brownstone Brooklyn, has featured plenty of bile about Trump, promises of a more affordable city and picayune local disputes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026

Alex asked, the bitter taste of bile in his mouth.

From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer

“Put a finger down if simone biles just ended you 🖐🏼,” Lee wrote, referring to a popular TikTok trend.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2024

Alexander Calder's vivid mo biles were meant to jiggle and gyrate under the leaves, George Rickey's feathery kinetics to stir in the breeze.

From Time Magazine Archive

The causes inducing these biles no one, as yet, I believe, has been able to discover, and therefore a preventive has not been found.

From Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society by William Crooke

Old Coyote mixes his p'isen with beef tallow, biles them ingredients up together a lot, an' then, while she's melted that a-way, he pours it into these yere auger holes an' lets it cool.

From Wolfville Nights by Alfred Henry Lewis

He'd stood losin' family and fortune and had stood biles but the seven days' visitation and the "I told-you-sos" and the advice of well wishers wuz too much for him.

From Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition by Marietta Holley


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