as in bitterness
biting sharpness of feeling or expression
with considerable bile, the author recounts a childhood filled with misery and loneliness
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Recent Examples of bile
Horgan’s Eva Garvey is funny and nurturing and grounded but also quite lonely and bitter, a character whose love and bile hold Bad Sisters together.
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Judy Berman, Time, 15 July 2025
Hepatologists diagnose and treat conditions affecting the liver and biliary system, which is all the organs that make and store bile, a fluid that helps digest fat.
—Suchandrima Bhowmik, Health, 29 June 2025
Biliary atresia is a disease in which a baby's bile ducts become obstructed, meaning bile can't get out of the liver and into the intestine.
—Charles Trepany, USA Today, 16 June 2025
Of those 4,300 bears caged when bile farming was outlawed in 2005, 177 remain in the cages of Vietnam’s bile farms today, kept by the industry’s most stubborn holdouts.
—Ryley Graham, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 June 2025
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Judy Berman, Time, 15 July 2025
Hepatologists diagnose and treat conditions affecting the liver and biliary system, which is all the organs that make and store bile, a fluid that helps digest fat.
—Suchandrima Bhowmik, Health, 29 June 2025
Biliary atresia is a disease in which a baby's bile ducts become obstructed, meaning bile can't get out of the liver and into the intestine.
—Charles Trepany, USA Today, 16 June 2025
Of those 4,300 bears caged when bile farming was outlawed in 2005, 177 remain in the cages of Vietnam’s bile farms today, kept by the industry’s most stubborn holdouts.
—Ryley Graham, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bile
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But her private letters to her sister Cassandra show a sharper and more astringent person, someone whose cruelty and bitterness were redeemed only by her jokes.—
Lucy Worsley
September 16,
Literary Hub,
16 Sep. 2025
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The Bitter Mai Tai is a full-fledged neo classic, first bright with lime and rum, then deep with almond, and then—where a standard Mai Tai would fall away with a lingering malic zing—the Bitter Mai Tai rises in a bold third act, humming with bitterness and the banana-funk of the rum.—
Jason O'Bryan,
Robb Report,
13 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The Islamic Republic of Iran is determined to preserve its independence at any cost, stand on its own feet, and firmly resist the excessive demands, aggression, and acts of hostility by foreign powers—including the United States and the Zionist regime.—
Amira El-Fekki,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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The message refers to the conflict in Gaza and calls for an end to hostilities.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Glamour,
15 Sep. 2025
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The severity of droughts, flooding, all of that will get worse.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
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The severity of a sprain depends on how much of a ligament is torn.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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The vitriol levied at uninvolved lawmakers since Wednesday's shooting has had a chilling effect on the American tradition of lawmakers' community engagement — as well as the open debate and political discourse Kirk himself espoused.—
Sasha Pezenik,
ABC News,
12 Sep. 2025
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Condemnations of Kirk's assassination is likely to continue from mainstream Democratic and Republican politicians, along with vitriol on some corners of social media.—
James Bickerton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025
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More than avoiding malice, we are called to take responsibility for the impact of our words.—
Andrew Weinstein,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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Understand that controlling behaviors may stem from fear and insecurity rather than malice.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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But the anger and radicalization have to be managed by Democratic leaders, if not for the sake of the country, then at least to avoid a political backlash.—
W. James Antle III,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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Burning anti-establishment anger helped lay the path for his successful 2018 presidential run, with dozens of far-right and conservative lawmakers elected on his coattails.—
Ricardo Brito,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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While VUMs require more testing to establish their true risks to public health, VOIs are explicitly confirmed to have genetic changes that affect virus characteristics like transmissibility and virulence.—
Jack Knudson,
Discover Magazine,
9 June 2025
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The diminished virulence that the pathogen evolved in response to more of its hosts dying potentially caused these earlier plague pandemics to fizzle out.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
29 May 2025
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Victims of a snake bite are advised not to try to remove the venom themselves or to tie off the bite area.—
Latoya Gayle,
PEOPLE,
8 Sep. 2025
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Wolf spider bites are not poisonous and won't cause sores or body-wide symptoms from its venom.—
Carrie Madormo,
Health,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Bile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bile. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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