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bitter

[bit-er] / ˈbɪt ər /




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But his military experience has left him bitter.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

Harry, 41, and Meghan, 45, left Britain for North America in 2020 amid a bitter feud with his family, which worsened as Harry published his tell-all memoir "Spare".

From Barron's Aug. 19, 2026

The New York City Council is investigating four prediction markets for alleged deceptive marketing practices and targeting minors, opening a new front in the bitter, state-by-state legal war over prediction-market regulation.

From The Wall Street Journal 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

When the weather turns bitter and I go to work in the snow and Helena struggles up the hill with the food bags and there’s just not money to buy enough coal.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

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

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

From Salon Jan. 18, 2026

Caporale offers one recipe: “A green tea Old Fashioned, sweetened with honey and flavored with lemon bitters, is spectacular.”

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

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

The movie’s bitterest irony is that, of the two men, it’s ultimately Dee who may be more honorable.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 24, 2026

In 2022 the two men ran one of the bitterest Senate races in recent memory.

From Slate Nov. 22, 2024

In this journey, I began forcing myself to love dressing-less salad, jugs of purified water, the bitterest dark chocolate as a treat, and yes, seasonless salmon.

From Salon Sep. 1, 2023

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




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