bitter

The closeness of the race only underscores one of El-Sayed’s challenges going ahead: reuniting a fractured party after a bitter primary campaign.

From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026

After a bruising and sometimes bitter campaign, El-Sayed hinted at bridge-building when he addressed supporters on Tuesday night, before the outcome was known.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

Young’s searing memoir, “The Wound Is Where the Light Enters,” chronicles this bitter childhood and its devastating consequences.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

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

The molasses tasted sweet, but with a bitter, black-licorice aftertaste.

From "I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919" by Lauren Tarshis

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

Caporale offers one recipe: “A green tea Old Fashioned, sweetened with honey and flavored with lemon bitters, is spectacular.”

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

For the unfamiliar, the old fashioned cocktail in just about every place other than Wisconsin is traditionally made with a whiskey, like bourbon, sugar and bitters.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 9, 2023

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

“New life tended to spring from bitterest ash,” she writes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2025

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

From Slate ● Nov. 22, 2024

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

February passed, the bitterest cold of the year coming as usual in that month.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt