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bitter

[bit-er] / ˈbɪt ər /




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Archer’s main competitor in the air taxi space is Joby, a startup based in Santa Cruz that has been entangled in a bitter legal battle with Archer for more than a year.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

It’s deliciously nutty and salty, courtesy of the peanut butter, and slightly bitter and acidic, thanks to the dark chocolate.

From Salon Jul. 20, 2026

But those are made with Prosecco, while Chet’s Golden Hour spritz uses gin and bitter liqueur.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

A brief but bitter war arose between Britain and Argentina over the territory in 1982.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

One that boasted of everything they ate, everywhere they went, and every bitter chemical they swam in.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

The bitters are then added to club soda and served over ice.

From Salon Jan. 18, 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

“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

They also offer rosé and a crisp Sauvignon Blanc by the glass, but the frozen concoction with bitters was the perfect antidote for Coachella’s striking afternoon sun.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 16, 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

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

There are probably few people still around who know much about the Rumford Fair Housing Act, which produced arguably the biggest, bitterest brawl ever in California’s Capitol.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2023

Each night in the bitterest winter we were forced to wash faces, arms, necks, legs and feet before going to bed.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou




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