bitter

A new marketing campaign beginning this month will prompt consumers to share their harrowing tales of trying the extremely bitter Malört for the first time—and to taste it if they haven’t before.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

In 2013, the brothers fell out in a bitter dispute.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

But when French President Emmanuel Macron announced the loan almost exactly a year ago, he brushed aside the warnings to celebrate Franco-British relations, 10 years after the bitter Brexit referendum.

From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026

Last week, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer set out plans to increase military spending by £15bn over the next four years, following a bitter row over defence funding.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026

Along a front of some 250 miles, German soldiers did an about-face and started to retrace their steps over ground won in bitter fighting during the previous two weeks.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

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

Other ways in which we “close the loop” are through syrups, infusions, shrubs, tinctures and bitters.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 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

If you want to make a nonalcoholic drink, simply add soda water, tonic and, if you like, a few dashes of Angostura bitters.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 10, 2023

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

She hated all Trojans, of course; she never forgot the judgment of Paris and she had been Troy’s bitterest enemy during the war, but she felt an especial hatred for Aeneas.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton