acidity
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Elegant and structured, it has juicy acidity and aromas of jasmine, hay and spice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
Grüner Veltliner’s relatively high acidity, herbal-fruity profile and signature white pepper notes help it pair with everything from barbecue to mole to sashimi to pad thai to fried chicken.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
One possibility is that increasing the acidity of saliva could speed up this chemical reaction.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
Compared with the sugar-free gum, chewing Hubba Bubba significantly increased saliva acidity, producing a 1.4 point drop in pH.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
He noticed Gibbon’s acidity, but not his tolerance, Othello’s love for the fair Desdemona, but not Iago’s perverted love of Othello.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
Mother herself, played with benign obliviousness by Carolyn McCormick, utters streams of soothing phrases, ignoring both her husband’s acidities and her children’s increasing discomfort.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2014
If peak acidities rather than long-term averages are what matters most, natural variability could make things worse.
From Economist ● Jul. 1, 2010
Percy Hammond: "Excepting the soft acidities of Mr. Strachey's investigation, it is the most entertaining, so far as we know, of the impudent annals of its exemplary topic."
From Time Magazine Archive
The most celebrated is Dorothy Parker, essentially a short-story writer whose glib acidities at and near the Algonquin Round Table gave her a legendary reputation.
From Time Magazine Archive
Miss Mapp felt it better to tear herself away before she began distilling all sorts of acidities that welled up in her fruitful mind.
From Miss Mapp by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
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