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
The gallbladder helps your body store and use bile, a fluid produced by the liver and sent to the gut, where it is needed to digest fat.3 Gallstones block the flow of bile to the gut.
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Sohaib Imtiaz, Verywell Health, 26 June 2025
Antisemitic rhetoric, and even violence, sometimes masked as anti-Israel bile, must be combatted, not coddled.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 20 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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Sohaib Imtiaz, Verywell Health, 26 June 2025
Antisemitic rhetoric, and even violence, sometimes masked as anti-Israel bile, must be combatted, not coddled.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 20 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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Regarding her own father, former Hollywood lighting director Thomas Markle, there is such entrenched bitterness, and this situation makes any reconciliation far from likely.—
Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa,
FOXNews.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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The biggest casualty, says Srivastava, will be the goodwill between India and the United States, built after decades of bitterness over Washington's support of India's adversaries like Pakistan.—
Omkar Khandekar,
NPR,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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When faced with Laura’s hostility, what can Cherry do but lose her mind, smash a glass against her head, and tell Daniel that his mother did it?—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
10 Sep. 2025
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The conflict between Israel and Palestine was dividing friends, sparking tensions, and fueling rising acts of hostility.—
Rchin Bari,
Boston Herald,
10 Sep. 2025
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Quick hits Tigers reliever Kyle Finnegan suffered right groin tightness while warming up during Wednesday's game, and the severity of the injury is unclear.—
Christian Romo,
Freep.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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While the time can vary based on many circumstances such as the type, severity, and location of the bruise, many bruises last for about two weeks.—
Marisa Garshick,
Verywell Health,
4 Sep. 2025
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Along with the online vitriol, people are holding real-life rallies against the technology in San Francisco and London.—
Eli Tan,
Twin Cities,
1 Sep. 2025
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Chelley Bissainthe, Olandria Carthen, and Huda Mustafa finally hash out the latter's claims of bullying in the villa and the racial vitriol spewed online.—
Mekishana Pierre,
EW.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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Howard sells his smug malice, digging into Matt in a way no one has before until the whole thing devolves into a physical fight.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
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Smith said Hawthorne committed murder because his actions showed malice.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
2 Sep. 2025
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In the wake of a transfer deadline that brought anger and worry from many supporters, the Wolves chairman gave an interview of more than half an hour to the club’s in-house television channel.—
Steve Madeley,
New York Times,
5 Sep. 2025
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Others echo the same sentiment, stressing that his anger is more than understandable.—
Ashley Vega,
PEOPLE,
5 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 11 Sep. 2025.
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