bitter
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It can be a bitter pill to swallow.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
It’s a full meal in a pint glass, a little bitter, smoky and sweet, with zero in common with today’s nerdy low-cal ales.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
A bitter standoff between tech-backed developers and local county leaders helped doom a $3-billion project at the edge of the Bay Area.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
In a bitter irony, Poppy had to be delivered by emergency caesarean.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Ice-cold, and bitter, and viscous, like she’d taken a swig of gasoline.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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
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
You can even embrace your inner mixologist by investing in a few non-alcoholic bitters.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 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
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 was arguably the biggest, bitterest brawl ever in California’s Capitol.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2024
And this was the bitterest moment of all: her younger son didn’t even recognize her.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
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