tart
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In the mid 2000s, buzzy brands like Pinkberry and Red Mango brought fro-yo back to the forefront with distinctly tart flavors, fresh fruit toppings and celebrity followings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
These acids give kombucha its familiar tart flavor.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026
It’s got a little bit of a tart taste.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
Even if your greek yogurt is on its last legs, I have found what seems like infinite uses for the tart, creamy product: breakfast, sauces, something vaguely adjacent to dessert.
From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2026
Gooseberries are so tart that more sugar than fruit goes into the pie.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
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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
Six new Pasadena bakeries to visit for cinnamon rolls, cookies, croissants, Labubu tarts, bagels, gluten-free desserts and vegan pastries.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026
Coating cools while dripping from an arm, smiles askew send mixed signals, smeared eyes like they’d been up late partying with the tarts, blemishes, cracked sugary skin.
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2026
By the time I lugged in the dessert tray-rice pudding, lemon biscuits, two creamed pear tarts, and an iced cake- the fire was blazing and the room much warmer.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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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
Put two cupfuls of sifted pastry flour in the sieve, and add one teaspoonful of cream of tarter and half a teaspoonful of soda.
From Miss Parloa's New Cook Book by Maria Parloa
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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