bitter

But the bitter divisions that had threatened the nation’s existence in its earliest years cooled, temporarily, as its 50th birthday approached.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

And now all they’re left with is the sour, bitter taste of having been played.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

How have City pulled off the biggest deal of the summer despite a seemingly bitter relationship with Chelsea following the appointment of Maresca as manager earlier this summer?

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

And it could shake up the power struggle atop the fund where John Overdeck has been locked in a bitter feud with his co-founder, David Siegel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

Oteg was drinking his bitter tea when I left.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

The group said it is also looking to cultural partnerships and activation in the on-premise scene, a strategy that has been central to above-industry growth at smaller peer Campari, maker of bitters Aperol.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

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

“There are places using bitters and different things to make a drink that tastes like an old-fashioned, and that is not what we are doing,” she said.

From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2024

Shuttled from one specialist to the next, the girl had been prescribed to shun garlic, consume disproportionate quantities of bitters, meditate, drink green coconut water, and swallow raw duck’s eggs beaten in milk.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

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

But there is one injustice bitterer even than that—to be denied the right to work according to one’s ability.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

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

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

From Slate ● Nov. 22, 2024

There are probably few people still around who know much about the Rumford Fair Housing Act, which produced arguably the biggest, bitterest brawl ever in California’s Capitol.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2023

In this journey, I began forcing myself to love dressing-less salad, jugs of purified water, the bitterest dark chocolate as a treat, and yes, seasonless salmon.

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2023

After the bitterest winter anyone could recall, life was slowly returning to normal.

From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown