as in to anger
to implant bitter feelings in
the family refused to let their devastating collision with a drunk driver permanently embitter them
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Recent Examples of embitter
To an extent not seen in a century, America’s two major parties have gone to battle over the rules that govern voting — an intensifying fight that threatens to dominate and embitter the country’s politics.
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Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2021
Many of the impulsive political intrusions by technology companies have done more to embitter American debate than to clean it up.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2021
In other words, impeachment embittered both sides —and also created a lot of winners, politically, many of them from Texas.
—Tom Benning, Dallas News, 6 Feb. 2020
While work can form a core part of a person’s identity, worklessness can depress and embitter.
—Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 May 2020
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Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2021
Many of the impulsive political intrusions by technology companies have done more to embitter American debate than to clean it up.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2021
In other words, impeachment embittered both sides —and also created a lot of winners, politically, many of them from Texas.
—Tom Benning, Dallas News, 6 Feb. 2020
While work can form a core part of a person’s identity, worklessness can depress and embitter.
—Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 May 2020
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Around 10 individuals ran onto the court waving Palestinian flags, angering hundreds of attendees from the French Jewish community cheering for the Israeli team.Bradford Betz, Fox News, 19 Dec. 2024
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Donald Trump's idea of abolishing the debt limit is foundering on Capitol Hill as Democrats line up against it and Republicans uncomfortably try to shoot it down without angering the president-elect.Andrew Solender, Axios, 19 Dec. 2024
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Trump’s move effectively killed off Johnson’s bill, which was more than 1,500 pages long and included a number of concessions to Democrats that infuriated conservatives, rank-and-file GOP members and Elon Musk.Al Weaver, The Hill, 19 Dec. 2024
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Clusters of unidentified drones buzzing the night skies over New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York have alarmed residents, infuriated members of Congress and prompted a call for a state of emergency in the Garden State.Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
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In a system that delivers high-quality care to those who can afford it and successfully navigate it, but enrages many people who encounter its restrictions and outlandish costs, the answers to these sorts of questions are often hard to find.John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
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There are, to be sure, plenty of Americans both enraged and fearful about his coming presidency.Niall Stanage, The Hill, 14 Dec. 2024
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Introduce just enough controversy to get the message remembered and discussed among friends, without antagonizing anyone.Martin Zwilling, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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But Perón’s efforts to curb the political influence of the Catholic Church antagonized the military, and in September 1955 Perón was deposed in a coup and forced into exile.Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
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“Embitter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/embitter. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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