tart
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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
It’s for these reasons that tart cherry juice is thought to help reduce muscle damage and soreness.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
My 2-ounce cup, piled high with Anita’s original tart flavor, set me back about $9.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Lemonade already thrives on the tension between sweet, tart, and salty.
From Salon ● May 28, 2026
My plan was to forage fruit, for a tart, from one of the many fruit trees lining the streets in Berkeley.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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Delicious food — Jamaican patties, raspberry tarts, Nigerian-style goat, salmon tamales — scented the streets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
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
The idea initially came from a colleague, who praised the homemade tarts he would bring into work.
From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2025
Asapahu, meanwhile, offers miniature makrut lime meringue tarts as an homage to Thai cuisine, which uses the tree's leaves in its seasonings.
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2025
“Smooth,” said Ron approvingly as the waiters popped up on all sides, some bearing silver trays of pumpkin juice, butterbeer, and firewhisky, others tottering piles of tarts and sandwiches.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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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
Turning watermelon juice into a rich syrup made darker and tarter with dried hibiscus flowers, then mixing it with a smoky mezcal makes for a deep, rich sour.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 20, 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
Beat the yolks of four eggs very light, with a cup of sugar, three-quarters cup creamed butter, and a glass of jelly, the tarter the better.
From Dishes & Beverages of the Old South by Martha McCulloch-Williams
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
“Man of the Hour,” one of the tartest songs from the new album, came next, and Ms. Jones’s ample indignation trumped the clunky lyrics.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2010
Pressed to name some, the President adopted his tartest professorial tones.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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 L. T. Meade
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