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tart

[tahrt] / tɑrt /




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One challenge is its intensely tart flavor, which some people may find unpleasant without added sweetness.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

They take frozen yogurt — sweet or tart — add mix-ins, and then put it in this crazy blender that’s like a giant drill with a handle that comes down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Flavors include pineapple, black cherry, and my favorite, grapefruit—which is tart without being overly sweet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

Grab a pineapple bun stuffed with ham and butter, a corned beef egg tart, a sourdough one, even pistachio.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026

Less and less often, as the summer set in, did her tart tongue discomfort her cousin.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

So it makes pain au chocolat and delicate tarts, but also strawberry mochi donuts or red bean bread.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Six new Pasadena bakeries to visit for cinnamon rolls, cookies, croissants, Labubu tarts, bagels, gluten-free desserts and vegan pastries.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026

The idea initially came from a colleague, who praised the homemade tarts he would bring into work.

From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2025

Proof of that is in the presence of Meghan’s beloved beagle Guy, still loafing in the corner as our host roasts chicken and throws together caramelized onion tarts.

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2025

"She's eaten a whole tray of citron tarts."

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

English and organic red wines, which he says can taste tarter, are among his favourites to drink chilled.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

Yes, the Sweet Potato Roll with Fried Chesapeake Catfish, Preserved Ramp tarter is a longtime favorite and is still available.

From Salon ● Jul. 16, 2024

The sauce will tilt sweeter or tarter depending on the citrus you choose, but that’s half the fun of it because there is a wide berth of goodness there.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2021

And there’s a rabbit hole of detail to descend into: freckles, skin moles and scars, teeth tarter, nose hair and shaving nicks on the necks and faces of figures.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2020

At last the smarter and tarter of the two orderlies, he who compounded the contents of the urns, sidled without ceremony to the commander's elbow.

From Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

The Granny Smiths were the tartest, but also the softest and most liable to break down.

From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2021

The most important contributor is black screenwriter Bill Gunn, adapting a 1966 novel by Kristin Hunter, also black, but adding most of the tartest lines and characterisations himself.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 4, 2012

In fact, the tartest sections of this book reflect Mr. Cheney’s frustration when things did not go his way.

From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2011

Hildebrand, a highly respected chemist, is one of the tartest critics of the life-adjustment and how-to-get-along kind of education being dished up by some of the nation's schools and teachers' colleges.

From Time Magazine Archive

This was spoken by Lady Janet in her tartest of voices, and with a steady stare at Upton, who stroked his moustaches in very palpable confusion.

From Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) by Charles James Lever


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