bitter

Civil War — a move that earned him the epithet “King Lincoln” and spurred bitter court fights and ugly battles in Congress.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026

By Wednesday night, a strong to gale force northerly wind will develop over northern and eastern parts of Scotland making it feel especially bitter with gusts exceeding 50mph.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026

Geely founder Li Shufu has warned against the bitter competition besetting local industry and pushing companies overseas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

If artillery was firing, the water tasted bitter and was undrinkable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Too many, like us, have delayed their departure until the bitter end.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

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

Then came the mid-aughts cocktail renaissance — speakeasy revival, vest-wearing bartenders, the return of obscure bitters, the emergence of the cocktail-as-craft.

From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2025

You can even embrace your inner mixologist by investing in a few non-alcoholic bitters.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 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 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

‘Whatever the case, when Orion rose again from Tartarus, he was Artemis’s bitterest enemy. No one can hate you with more intensity than someone who used to love you.’

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan