tart
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It’s for these reasons that tart cherry juice is thought to help reduce muscle damage and soreness.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
Flavors include pineapple, black cherry, and my favorite, grapefruit—which is tart without being overly sweet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
They slurped the cafe’s signature lavashak smoothie — a tart mixture including peaches, various berries and pomegranate molasses — and munched on slow-cooked lamb over nachos with melty Armenian string cheese.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
Lemonade already thrives on the tension between sweet, tart, and salty.
From Salon ● May 28, 2026
“That's fantastic. This is a lovely treacle tart, by the way. Is it from Greenland?”
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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Delicious food — Jamaican patties, raspberry tarts, Nigerian-style goat, salmon tamales — scented the streets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
So it makes pain au chocolat and delicate tarts, but also strawberry mochi donuts or red bean bread.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
The first sheet becomes the main course: four crisp, savory egg tarts with pancetta, pecorino and enough black pepper to evoke cacio e pepe.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
The idea initially came from a colleague, who praised the homemade tarts he would bring into work.
From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2025
I see it at the same time she does—the blue velvet box in the center of the silver platter, right between the tarts.
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
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English and organic red wines, which he says can taste tarter, are among his favourites to drink chilled.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
Similar to the Italian lemons—the tarter Sorrento and the sweeter Sfumato—used to make limoncello, my two lemon varieties impart different levels of sweetness and tartness.
From Salon ● Nov. 12, 2022
The sauce will tilt sweeter or tarter depending on the citrus you choose, but that’s half the fun of it because there is a wide berth of goodness there.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2021
And there’s a rabbit hole of detail to descend into: freckles, skin moles and scars, teeth tarter, nose hair and shaving nicks on the necks and faces of figures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2020
If you would have the paste tarter, you may put a little juyce of Limons to it.
From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by Anne MacDonell
The most important contributor is black screenwriter Bill Gunn, adapting a 1966 novel by Kristin Hunter, also black, but adding most of the tartest lines and characterisations himself.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 4, 2012
In fact, the tartest sections of this book reflect Mr. Cheney’s frustration when things did not go his way.
From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2011
“Man of the Hour,” one of the tartest songs from the new album, came next, and Ms. Jones’s ample indignation trumped the clunky lyrics.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2010
Hildebrand, a highly respected chemist, is one of the tartest critics of the life-adjustment and how-to-get-along kind of education being dished up by some of the nation's schools and teachers' colleges.
From Time Magazine Archive
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If praises of the Mainwarings is to begin," answered Mrs. Mortlock in her tartest voice, "what I say is, let me retire.
From The Palace Beautiful A Story for Girls by L. T. Meade
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