bitter
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In the end, I just want the thing to be emotionally right and for the audience to be there right till the bitter end.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
He replaced the late Cyrus Mistry, whose abrupt removal from the post months earlier had triggered a bitter legal battle.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
The evidence suggests King Harold may have weakened his position well before the Battle of Hastings by supporting the wrong faction during a bitter conflict between two competing popes.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
On Friday, Cambridge University said that it would continue to investigate Arday's appointment and tenure after he resigned citing pressure over the bitter dispute.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
Whips of red lightning crackled through the clouds, thrashing up a bitter wind that filled my lungs with dirt.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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
Caporale’s go-to base when crafting an Aperol Spritz mocktail is a “good dash” of cocktail bitters, specifically Angostura bitters.
From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2026
In addition to Peychaud’s and Angostura, Caporale recommends using Regan’s Orange bitters.
From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2026
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
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
To forget the bitterest chapters of our personal histories can be overwhelmingly tempting when there’s so much to deal with, right in front of us.
From Salon ● May 25, 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
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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