bitter
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In death, the beloved bald eagle’s final resting place has ignited a bitter clash where internet fame and tribal rights collide.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
It was marked by a dizzying wave of defections and bitter internal conflicts.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Never mind that this salt-and-pepper-haired coach with the Portuguese accent had also constructed a reputation as a sore loser, a bitter complainer, and raging egomaniac.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
On Friday, Cambridge University said that it would continue to investigate Arday's appointment and tenure after he resigned citing pressure over the bitter dispute.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
Many Germans were still bitter about the terms of the Treaty of Versailles.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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
He also recommends Peychaud’s bitters, which adds a bright, red hue to the mocktail.
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
“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
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
“New life tended to spring from bitterest ash,” she writes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2025
In 2022 the two men ran one of the bitterest Senate races in recent memory.
From Slate ● Nov. 22, 2024
February passed, the bitterest cold of the year coming as usual in that month.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
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