bitter
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“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
Campari spent decades teaching Americans to love the Italian tradition of bitter aperitifs at sunset.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
And now all they’re left with is the sour, bitter taste of having been played.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Argentina and the UK waged a brief but bitter war over the territory in 1982.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
With it, they had a single flatcake of roasted acor meal: very bitter, but not too bad once it was broken up and mashed into the broth.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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
Staying on the topic of bitters, the Old Fashioned is yet another cocktail that’s a bit difficult to transform into an almost identical mocktail.
From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2026
You can even embrace your inner mixologist by investing in a few non-alcoholic bitters.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 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
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
In this journey, I began forcing myself to love dressing-less salad, jugs of purified water, the bitterest dark chocolate as a treat, and yes, seasonless salmon.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2023
My father had been killed in the mine accident three months earlier in the bitterest January anyone could remember.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
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