aftertaste

as in tang
a sensation that remains after something is experienced The wine has a fruity aftertaste.

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Recent Examples of aftertaste Manage the aftertaste: Combining different sweeteners can help balance out flavors and minimize cloying sweetness or cooling aftertaste. Lauren O'Connor, Ms, Health, 18 Dec. 2024 Made with organic cocoa powder, our tester found that this pick’s taste was mild and natural with no aftertaste. Suzy Forman, SELF, 21 Nov. 2024 The finish is crisp, with a mild citrus aftertaste. Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024 That medicine came with a vile aftertaste, too, but was necessary. Eric Koreen, The Athletic, 29 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for aftertaste 
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Noun
  • Two successive home losses have carried the stale tang of a side in need of a refresh and a veering between extremes.
    George Caulkin, The Athletic, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Then it all gets tossed with Parmesan for a salty tang.
    Melissa Clark, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The digital detectors used by the camera suffered from an issue called quantum efficiency hysteresis, or QEH—when WF/PC took an image of a bright object, there was an afterimage left behind that would mess up later observations.
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The afterimage of any one scene lasts in the human visual system for fractions of a second, Banna says.
    Charlotte Hu, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Statham, who in the film will play a man pulled back towards the ghosts of his violent past, is currently reteaming with David Ayer on action-thriller A Working Man, and recently wrapped production on Mutiny with Jean-Francois Richet for Mad River.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Barcelona have previously criticised the current VAR system and asked for audios themselves when a potential ghost goal by winger Lamine Yamal was not given in an April 2024 Clasico which Madrid won 3-2.
    Dermot Corrigan, The Athletic, 8 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • However, authorities found no evidence of blood traces or a struggle in Knezevich Henao’s Madrid apartment.
    Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2025
  • And traces of Vapor Blue can be found in Aknvas’ Christian Juul Nielsen’s inspiration image for fall.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 6 Feb. 2025
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  • Mickey 17 stars Robert Pattinson as a down-and-out space colonist living in a high-tech dystopia overseen by a dictator played by Mark Ruffalo with signature relish.
    Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2025
  • Knight and Freeman, both members of the Actors Studio, were matched in the play’s Los Angeles production and, both electrifying in their own ways, returned to the fray with relish.
    J. Hoberman, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The misguided focus on containment is a belated echo of the nuclear age, when the United States and others limited the spread of atomic bombs by restricting access to enriched uranium, by keeping an eye on what certain scientists were doing and by sending inspectors into labs and military bases.
    Zeynep Tufekci, The Mercury News, 12 Feb. 2025
  • That’s when a figure disrupts the new stasis of Guy’s life: Oswald, a charismatic Brit with neurofibromatosis, whose face is an echo of what Edward’s once looked like.
    Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2025
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  • This effect happens because Earth's atmosphere scatters shorter wavelengths of light from the sun while allowing longer wavelengths of red and orange hues to be refracted into Earth's umbra (the darkest part of Earth's shadow).
    Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Sam attempts to define his version of Captain America, while fighting to exonerate his friend, all while Samuel Sterns (Tim Blake Nelson) pulls the strings from the shadows — with the ultimate aim of revenge on Ross for broken promises.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 Feb. 2025

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“Aftertaste.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aftertaste. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.

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