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taste

[tayst] / teɪst /




NOUN
capacity to sense flavor
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The pineapple is sharp, the cherry is rich, and the snozzberries would probably taste like snozzberries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Chayka thinks algorithms have made us lazy, and "prevent us from going deeper" in our cultural taste.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

In Champagne, producer Claude Mandois reported harvesting three-quarters of an average yield in terms of volume although "in terms of quality visually and in terms of taste we had an exceptional harvest."

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

“I didn’t want that clean, wholesome life ... It felt so fake. I identified with real people, oppressed people who were outside that life. I wanted to taste real life — street life.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

If it smells interesting, he thinks, it must taste good.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

The attorneys said detainees have complained about going three to seven hours without water, and about having access only to tap water that tastes like metal and smells like fish.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

Plus, Byron Donalds walks a tightrope of Trump loyalty and Levi’s is trying to take advantage of the back-to-the-future shift in style tastes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

So that’s your homework for week two of Soup School: When your next pot tastes fine but somehow unfinished, don’t automatically add another shower of salt.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

"There was a lot of Western interest in things like the rope trick decades ago. But forms and tastes have changed, and so has what India chooses to showcase," Dhanda says.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Alex says the word like it tastes bad.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

"When I first tasted it, it was a world of difference - I've been missing out all these years," she told BBC Scotland News.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

What arrived cost about $14 and tasted perfectly acceptable.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

The oysters from Heron Island, a one-man operation in Fitch Cove about three miles downstream from Schooner Landing, tasted of grass-fed butter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

"I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren't in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets."

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

It tasted delicious and made the coolest crunching sound.

From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney

But when the 58-year-old returned to eat leftovers at lunch, she noticed bright green granules in the food and that her tongue felt numb after tasting it.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Kathleen Harper and her husband would normally share a few appetizers, but tonight they were splurging on the $50 tasting menu.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

From 20-course omakase tasting menus to snug sushi bars, here’s where to find the best and freshest sushi in Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Barbera d'Asti, "traditionally dominated by notes of cherry and plum, is increasingly evolving toward more concentrated aromas of blackberry and blackcurrant", Garberoglio said after a tasting.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

The snake swung its head up, tasting the air.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia




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