taste
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Scroll through the TikTok comments on her video about returning to work, and you get a taste of the public reaction: "This is crazy", "insane to me".
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
It won’t matter if mankind develops a taste for adjusting climate because it can.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Pleasant got his first taste of leadership throughout spring practices.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
A food can taste sweet because it contains sugar, a low-calorie sweetener, or naturally occurring sugars.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
The fire burned a little way into the grassy field, but it seemed to like the taste of the pine trees all around it much better.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
The study suggests that simply reducing exposure to sweet tastes may not be enough to change people's preferences or improve the health measures examined over six months.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
It’s grounded in a specific place, carrying with it all the tastes, smells and textures McFadden can relive from that trip.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Reflecting more recent tastes, the Charts Company has also published a list of the most-streamed albums of the 2020s, led by Olivia Rodrigo's Sour.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
I’ve been on a mission to transform a handful of my go-to “struggle meals” into something that feels and tastes more elevated — without breaking the bank, of course.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
Miz Rita makes us turkey sandwiches for lunch, and though it tastes really good, I don’t feel like eating.
From "Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero" by Kelly J. Baptist
The experiments also showed that the brain's memory system responded to the nutritional content of food, not simply to how pleasant or sweet it tasted.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
A Times reporter sampled the beverage and found it overwhelmingly tasted like coconut water, without a hint of any other ingredients.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026
Like China, Indonesia has also tasted World Cup action once before - in 1938, when it competed as the Dutch East Indies, then a colony of the Netherlands.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
It has now been an astonishing six weeks since New York tasted defeat, in the third game of the first round of the playoffs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
Instead, it was vaguely grassy, but mostly tasted like sugar beet juice.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
Airplane cabins’ lower humidity levels can diminish passengers’ ability to taste and smell, leaving light wines tasting like water, or highly acidic wines tasting sour and overly tangy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Cooking classes and wine tasting sessions - usually hosted in venues with air conditioning - are becoming a popular alternative to walking tours, Medina says.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
On Wednesday evening, red wine lovers gathered in south Manchester for a tasting.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
Food is framed as a star of “7 Paintings” but tasting it is just one component.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
His dad took a sip from a bottle of water, then spat out the water after tasting it.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
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