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taste

[teyst] / teɪst /




NOUN
capacity to sense flavor
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This distinction matters because foods can taste sweet for very different nutritional reasons.

From Science Daily Aug. 8, 2026

If successful, researchers could recreate the taste of Guinness as it was brewed in 1864 using samples of the recovered stout.

From BBC Aug. 7, 2026

His mother, Uttapa says, thinks of him as an “old soul,” given his eclectic taste in music, from Elvis Presley and Del Shannon to AC/DC and Led Zeppelin.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2026

He brought that flair, tailored clothing and a taste for provocation into public life.

From Barron's Aug. 7, 2026

They don’t taste like anything, but they make it seem more authentic somehow.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

Changing tastes in comedy have affected how multicams are edited.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

The study suggests that simply reducing exposure to sweet tastes may not be enough to change people's preferences or improve the health measures examined over six months.

From Science Daily Aug. 8, 2026

The dialogue is too modern for many tastes.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

Reflecting more recent tastes, the Charts Company has also published a list of the most-streamed albums of the 2020s, led by Olivia Rodrigo's Sour.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

Aunty Silver offers me a fluffy white rice cake, which tastes like a salty cloud.

From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman

The experiments also showed that the brain's memory system responded to the nutritional content of food, not simply to how pleasant or sweet it tasted.

From Science Daily Jul. 29, 2026

A Times reporter sampled the beverage and found it overwhelmingly tasted like coconut water, without a hint of any other ingredients.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 11, 2026

Other special events have similarly been designed to celebrate the flow of people and ideas both ways across the Atlantic - a shared heritage that can still be tasted today, in a very literal sense.

From BBC Jul. 1, 2026

We’ve tasted frijol con puerco so good it felt like a religious experience.

From Salon Jun. 3, 2026

Mama tasted the fish stew and aimed a tired smile at Anya.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

Airplane cabins’ lower humidity levels can diminish passengers’ ability to taste and smell, leaving light wines tasting like water, or highly acidic wines tasting sour and overly tangy.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

Cooking classes and wine tasting sessions - usually hosted in venues with air conditioning - are becoming a popular alternative to walking tours, Medina says.

From BBC Aug. 4, 2026

Instead of a wine tasting, they sampled pizzas from different restaurants in the New Haven area.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

On Wednesday evening, red wine lovers gathered in south Manchester for a tasting.

From BBC Jul. 12, 2026

He was about thirty pounds lighter then, a constant grin on his face, a man tasting the full feast of youth.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers




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