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tart

[tahrt] / tɑrt /




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These acids give kombucha its familiar tart flavor.

From Science Daily Jun. 23, 2026

It’s got a little bit of a tart taste.

From Los Angeles Times May 22, 2026

For the moms who love a tart yet refreshing dessert, treat them to homemade lime ice cream.

From Salon May 10, 2026

More broadly the play is a tart vivisection of human pettiness and venality, as one by one the characters’ prejudices, peccadilloes and blinkered views are exposed.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 23, 2026

I ate it slowly, savoring the crispy outside tingling with the tart green chutney I dipped it in.

From "The Night Diary" by Veera Hiranandani

For larger or thicker cubes, briefly cook the pancetta in a skillet before adding it to the tarts.

From Salon Jul. 20, 2026

The first sheet becomes the main course: four crisp, savory egg tarts with pancetta, pecorino and enough black pepper to evoke cacio e pepe.

From Salon Jul. 20, 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

“Well, let me see...will it be oozing chocolate lava cake at sixteen dollars or the caramelized runny butter tarts at fourteen dollars or the...,”

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

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

From BBC Jul. 12, 2026

Similar to the Italian lemons—the tarter Sorrento and the sweeter Sfumato—used to make limoncello, my two lemon varieties impart different levels of sweetness and tartness.

From Salon Nov. 12, 2022

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

Put two cupfuls of sifted pastry flour in the sieve, and add one teaspoonful of cream of tarter and half a teaspoonful of soda.

From Miss Parloa's New Cook Book by Parloa, Maria

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

If praises of the Mainwarings is to begin," answered Mrs. Mortlock in her tartest voice, "what I say is, let me retire.

From The Palace Beautiful A Story for Girls by Meade, L. T.




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