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
It’s got a little bit of a tart taste.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
It’s got a big-boy suspension—with front coilover struts and multi-link rear suspension—tastefully tart steering response and above-par roadholding, thanks to a center of gravity like a sea buoy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026
For the moms who love a tart yet refreshing dessert, treat them to homemade lime ice cream.
From Salon ● May 10, 2026
It wasn’t that they were bitter so much as that they lacked any sweetness, had a tart flavor that left his mouth dry feeling.
From "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen
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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
The idea initially came from a colleague, who praised the homemade tarts he would bring into work.
From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2025
Servants push in breakfast carts overflowing with hard-boiled eggs, grilled-meat and fruit tarts, pastries, fried bacon, and sweet toast, but Ivy shoos them out, then races to Elisabeth's office door.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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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
Turning watermelon juice into a rich syrup made darker and tarter with dried hibiscus flowers, then mixing it with a smoky mezcal makes for a deep, rich sour.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 20, 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
When chloroform was produced, he said that was the same smell, but there was something more that was considerably tarter.
From A Republic Without a President and Other Stories by Herbert D. (Herbert Dickinson) Ward
The Granny Smiths were the tartest, but also the softest and most liable to break down.
From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2021
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
“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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