bitter

“If he endorses Karen Bass a lot of people will see him as a sellout. If he endorses Nithya, which I can’t see happening, people will say he’s just bitter at Karen Bass,” Klink said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

After a bitter split with a partner, he renamed his company Zimmer Partners.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

"It's incredibly painful. It furthers our resolve to see this through until the bitter end because we can't bring him back," Webber said.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

And now all they’re left with is the sour, bitter taste of having been played.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

She explains that the other patients at Tala are understandably bitter, apathetic, and emotionally and spiritually broken.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

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

Then came the mid-aughts cocktail renaissance — speakeasy revival, vest-wearing bartenders, the return of obscure bitters, the emergence of the cocktail-as-craft.

From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2025

“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

Shuttled from one specialist to the next, the girl had been prescribed to shun garlic, consume disproportionate quantities of bitters, meditate, drink green coconut water, and swallow raw duck’s eggs beaten in milk.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

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

But there is one injustice bitterer even than that—to be denied the right to work according to one’s ability.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

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

The movie’s bitterest irony is that, of the two men, it’s ultimately Dee who may be more honorable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 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

February passed, the bitterest cold of the year coming as usual in that month.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt