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 However, these can occasionally leave an unpleasant aftertaste. — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for aftertaste

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Noun

Save the vinegar for dishes that need tang, not mirin’s rounded sweetness.

— Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit Magazine, 23 Oct. 2026
The movie sanitizes the past and removes its tang, its pungency, leaving a craving for contact with nature, with raw experience, with incongruities and accidents and anything but what fits, in lieu of such synthetic sophistication.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 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

In her first sketch, Navarrette and Hernandez played the ghost of a couple of 1930s kids on the Queen Mary who keep distracting a tourist from hearing where another ghost’s treasure is hidden.

— Glenn Garner, Deadline, 31 Oct. 2026
All parties, that is, except for Oluko, who has emerged as a late-breaking villain and ghost in the machine.

— Scott Tobias, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of ghost

Noun

Two new clades of the virus, SHAV-EU1 and SHAV-EU2, were detected earlier this year, and genetic testing revealed traces of the first type in the deceased person’s cerebrospinal fluid, urine and saliva, among other samples.

— Sahas Mehra, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2026
The investigation remains active and ongoing, noting that additional arrests are possible as detectives continue to review physical evidence, trace leads and establish the full sequence of events.

— Eric Mack, FOXNews.com, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of trace

Noun

The Aegean Dragon maki ($23), for example, combines shrimp tempura with criollo relish and harissa, while the Kataifi ($33) wraps tuna and melon in shredded pastry.

— Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2026
At Sorkin’s version of the Wall Street Journal, everyone up and down the masthead — editors, writers, even interns — insults each other with such relish that someone should be written up by HR.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of relish

Noun

Her rise has echoes of podcaster Ashley Flowers and blogger Jessica Red Krauss — media outsiders who tapped into deep veins of public interest.

— Ben Smith, semafor.com, 2 Nov. 2026
Shortly after a scene in which their absent father speaks about them in narration, an echo from beyond the grave, three sisters – oldest Kyo, middle child Asumi and youngest Kino – learn of his death.

— Kambole Campbell, Variety, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of echo

Noun

Colors were suitably accurate and nicely saturated, and the image offered good contrast across the board from dark to bright scenes, along with impressively good shadow detail and a sense of three-dimensionality in dark scenes.

— M. David Stone, PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2026
The bear was also recently featured in Southern Living — for a few months each fall, a local mountain casts a shadow shaped like a bear onto the fall foliage below.

— Eva Flowe, Charlotte Observer, 23 Oct. 2026

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