bitter

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

How have City pulled off the biggest deal of the summer despite a seemingly bitter relationship with Chelsea following the appointment of Maresca as manager earlier this summer?

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

Reporter Ben Glickman details how disagreements over estate planning morphed into a bitter succession drama that is now rankling the board of the company Ford forged.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

The demolition warning marks an escalation in a bitter battle over one of the best-known cultural institutions in the United States.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

The only thing Akira could see, feel, smell, or taste was the bitter gray smoke that hung in the air.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

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

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

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

“New life tended to spring from bitterest ash,” she writes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2025

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

For two months he had hiked and climbed those snow.capped peaks in the bitterest winter weather, with only his crampons and pickax for company.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood