bitter
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But his military experience has left him bitter.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 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
So Carol’s bitter fury feels distinct from her friendly personality as well as anything we’ve ever seen her do onscreen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
She smelled of ash and dust, old cloth and bitter herbs.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
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
Other ways in which we “close the loop” are through syrups, infusions, shrubs, tinctures and bitters.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2024
“There are places using bitters and different things to make a drink that tastes like an old-fashioned, and that is not what we are doing,” she said.
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 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
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
It turns out that some of the bitterest plants contain valuable nutrients, even useful medicines.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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