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bitter

[bit-er] / ˈbɪt ər /




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The afternoon began on a bitter note for USC.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

Her treatment during her bitter divorce from Charles and the Windsors’ flat-footed response to her death in a Paris car crash have been explored in numerous books, movies and a Netflix television series.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

When one happens, the ingredients will combine in a very unpleasant and bitter dish.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

Clubs which are usually bitter rivals came together to remember those killed by Hamas.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

I swallow the bitter feeling rising inside me and tap my way over to the garage door.

From "Zara’s Rules for Record-Breaking Fun" by Hena Khan

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

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

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

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

There are probably few people still around who know much about the Rumford Fair Housing Act, which produced arguably the biggest, bitterest brawl ever in California’s Capitol.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2023

The men stood with their braceleted arms around one another’s shoulders—men who not long before had been the bitterest of enemies—and I watched it all, wringing my fingers, smiling rage.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner




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