Thesaurus results for AFTERTASTE

aftertaste

noun

Definition of 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 Editors also appreciated it for its consistency and mouthfeel, which didn't leave an aftertaste and felt fresh all the way through. — Catherine Jessee, Southern Living, 26 June 2026 Customers and early reviews frequently note the absence of chalky aftertaste or bloating—outcomes the brand attributes to its ingredient choices and in-house production focus for quality control. — Tanya Akim, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026 Wild catfish are notorious for their muddy aftertaste, yet this doesn’t seem to turn many people off. — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 25 June 2026 There’s no strange aftertaste, no fishy flavor, and no texture issues. — Rita Templeton, Flow Space, 15 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for aftertaste

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Noun

The pickled papaya salad on top lends the loveliest bit of sweet tang and a little crunch.

— Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 9 Sep. 2026
When fully deployed, the titanium lockbar moves directly behind the blade tang to establish lockup.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of tang

Noun

Those truths come together in a series of ands and buts, which layer upon and contradict each other, like the afterimages of Tullock in Stefania Bulbarella’s video design.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
That trailing effect isn’t a smear on its own, but their blades also leave afterimages, duplicate smears, along their path through space.

— Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 19 Aug. 2025

Definition of afterimage

Noun

As life moves on, ghosts remain The suit against Fox filed by Zakrzewski's widow, Michelle Ross-Stanton, is still winding its way through the British legal system.

— David Folkenflik, NPR, 4 Oct. 2026
Swift appears as the ghost of Farrell’s former wife, warning Johnson about her husband and revealing the dark truth behind his past.

— Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of ghost

Noun

Investigators did not find any trace of an intruder fleeing the area, and the damage to the garage side door was inconsistent with a typical break-in, police testified.

— Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2026
The open space connects with a dining area, where traces of Somerset House’s DNA are on display.

— Keith Flanagan, Architectural Digest, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of trace

Noun

Specific menu items include the Italian sausage, egg and Cooper’s sharp cheese sandwich; biscuits and gravy; and chorizo breakfast burrito with eggs, potatoes, onions, cheese and zesty red pepper relish.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 28 Sep. 2026
Infusing almost every Pawlikowski film is a strain of gloomy relish.

— Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of relish

Noun

Audiences will no doubt see broad echoes of what could have been in Ali’s passionate and often ruthless Latif.

— CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2026
Ari struggles to understand how its two worlds connect, and as events in one world echo events in the other, so will many readers.

— The Week US, TheWeek, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of echo

Noun

Using sine wave generators and pink lighting so saturated it essentially blots out all other color and shadow, Young and Zazeela created a space that’s somehow both static and full of life.

— Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 4 Oct. 2026
The duration of totality is a function of the diameter of the moon's shadow.

— Jamie Carter, Space.com, 3 Oct. 2026

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