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bile

[bahyl] / baɪl /
NOUN
animus
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NOUN
choler
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NOUN
peevishness
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WEAK
affableness




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She used tracer dye to make the fake bile glow in the dark.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

The bears, which arrived on Thursday, had been kept at one of South Korea's last bear bile farms – sites which have now been banned in the country.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

Towle's family announced her death, from complications related to bile duct cancer that had spread to other parts of her body, on her social media accounts on Thursday.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

So we get to witness the arguments, which unfortunately for the responsible parties—the “org” that attracts bile online and off—seem to portend the struggles to come.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

Joe pursued, “somebody must keep the pot a-biling, Pip, or the pot won’t bile, don’t you know?”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

“Put a finger down if simone biles just ended you 🖐🏼,” Lee wrote, referring to a popular TikTok trend.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2024

Alexander Calder's vivid mo biles were meant to jiggle and gyrate under the leaves, George Rickey's feathery kinetics to stir in the breeze.

From Time Magazine Archive

But she brought me some black-eyed peas today, and I lac's um 'caze dey biles sof', and I say 'ef de devil brought hit, God sarnt hit.'

From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration

What! twelve biles on one man at a time!

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw

Job waz a card, he had more pashunce, and biles, tew the square inch, than iz usual.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw


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