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
Your Digestive Health Improves Olive oil helps stimulate the digestive system by increasing bile production.
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Lindsay Curtis, Verywell Health, 23 Sep. 2025
Then there’s the rather bile function of producing bile that can help with the breakdown and absorption of fats during digestion.
—Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
In 2020, his son James Redford died from bile-duct cancer in his liver at the age of 58.
—Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
This allows bile to drain out of the liver and is used to prevent liver failure.
—Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025
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Lindsay Curtis, Verywell Health, 23 Sep. 2025
Then there’s the rather bile function of producing bile that can help with the breakdown and absorption of fats during digestion.
—Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
In 2020, his son James Redford died from bile-duct cancer in his liver at the age of 58.
—Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
This allows bile to drain out of the liver and is used to prevent liver failure.
—Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bile
Noun
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What remains is not shame or bitterness, but genuine care.—
Kelly Foster Lundquist,
PEOPLE,
2 Nov. 2025
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This swap will not only increase the healthfulness of your recipe, but dark chocolate’s bitterness is the perfect contrast to the sweetness of most baked goods.—
Christina Manian,
Health,
30 Oct. 2025
Noun
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One can be sure that the utility of having hostilities with Venezuela for this case is not lost on the administration.—
David Smilde,
Time,
3 Nov. 2025
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Before the Chiefs’ Divisional Round win in January 2024, Jones embraced that hostility by jawing with fans during warmups.—
Pete Sweeney,
Kansas City Star,
30 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Kp is an index used to indicate the severity of the global magnetic disturbances in near-Earth space, NOAA said.—
Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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Brain scans revealed the severity of the bleeds and whether patients showed signs of cerebral small vessel disease, a condition that damages tiny blood vessels in the brain and is linked to aging, high blood pressure and dementia.—
Khloe Quill,
FOXNews.com,
6 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Unfortunately, the veteran has gotten used to hate and vitriol.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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But that did little to dull the vitriol targeting the military’s top lawyer.—
Tal Shalev,
CNN Money,
4 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Shortly after, he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the kidnapping, rape and malice murder charges.—
Veronica Fulton,
NBC news,
31 Oct. 2025
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Potential adversaries interpret political action in zero-sum terms; see malice and evil design in mere blunders and coincidence; trumpet necessity rather than navigate choice; and, in extreme cases, invent pretext or promise profit to make more palatable a dubious cause.—
Elizabeth D. Samet,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The thumping Republicans took in this week's elections reflected longer-running anger among constituencies that already leaned Democratic, but the GOP needs to worry that the government shutdown will cause that frustration to spread.—
Deputy News Editor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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And that is why my first true voice—the one that could hold complexity, contradiction, grief, even anger—came in English.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
Noun
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One Pasteurella-like microbe carried genetic hints of virulence and has ties to deadly outbreaks in modern African elephants.—
Pranjal Malewar,
New Atlas,
30 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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It’s theorized this is because the brown widow isn’t able to inject as much venom as its larger relative.—
Madison Dapcevich,
Outside,
31 Oct. 2025
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Their venom Is not considered dangerous to humans, although a bite would likely be painful and cause swelling similar to that of a wasp sting.—
Jasmine Laws,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Bile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bile. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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