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bitter

[bit-er] / ˈbɪt ər /




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The drastic measures are aimed at easing a bitter water dispute that has divided the region for years and worsened this year amid an exceptional drought.

From Barron's Jul. 31, 2026

With a voice at times bitter, befuddled and bemused at his own wrecked life, Busby emerges as a self-aware, sympathetic survivor who knew his best work came at the beginning.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

Hopefully, it’s more sweet than bitter if you made a profit on those $80,000 shares.

From MarketWatch Jul. 24, 2026

Archer’s main competitor in the air taxi space is Joby, a startup based in Santa Cruz that has been entangled in a bitter legal battle with Archer for more than a year.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

Along a front of some 250 miles, German soldiers did an about-face and started to retrace their steps over ground won in bitter fighting during the previous two weeks.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

The group behind Aperol and Campari bitters recorded 2.5% organic sales growth in the quarter through June, with its core aperitifs business booking 4% growth.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

Staying on the topic of bitters, the Old Fashioned is yet another cocktail that’s a bit difficult to transform into an almost identical mocktail.

From Salon Jan. 18, 2026

He also recommends Peychaud’s bitters, which adds a bright, red hue to the mocktail.

From Salon Jan. 18, 2026

They also offer rosé and a crisp Sauvignon Blanc by the glass, but the frozen concoction with bitters was the perfect antidote for Coachella’s striking afternoon sun.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 16, 2024

Some chocolate had the bitters and you added sugar.

From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson

His face is bitterer than the cold as Miranda asks him how his apartment hunt is going.

From Salon Jul. 23, 2023

That’s a bitter joke, but no bitterer than the tone of the English master’s sweeping historical drama about the slaughter of a group of peaceful labor organizers at a mass protest in 1819.

From Slate Dec. 6, 2019

“Information warfare will grow far bitterer, and that’s something we will have to live with during the upcoming period.”

From Washington Times Mar. 5, 2018

It’s hard to say which of them produced the bitterer barbs.

From Time Sep. 24, 2015

Still, they say the bitterer the medicine the quicker the cure.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

Some of the regime’s bitterest enemies in Miami became its de facto financial supporters as they sent their grandparents money without which they couldn’t survive.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 8, 2026

The movie’s bitterest irony is that, of the two men, it’s ultimately Dee who may be more honorable.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 24, 2026

In 2022 the two men ran one of the bitterest Senate races in recent memory.

From Slate Nov. 22, 2024

It had been the NHS’s longest-running and bitterest pay dispute - responsible for hundreds of thousands of cancelled operations and appointments.

From BBC Aug. 1, 2024

For two months he had hiked and climbed those snow.capped peaks in the bitterest winter weather, with only his crampons and pickax for company.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood




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