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
This hormone increases bile production in your small intestine and may help push waste through your body more quickly.4
All these processes working together can increase your urge to poop.
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Sherri Gordon, Health, 27 Mar. 2025
He was released from the hospital on Wednesday after being monitored for three days to ensure no bile was leaking into the bloodstream.
—Michael Russo, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Her symptoms include vomiting up clots of hair, bile and sewing pins; making scary pronouncements in a guttural voice that is not her own; and being unusually attractive to wasps, whose carcasses litter her bedclothes.
—Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2025
The agency also noted that Zinna had no evidence of infectious disease, trauma, or poisoning, and the rescue canine's stomach was empty except for small amounts of hair and bile, per AP.
—Kirsty Hatcher, People.com, 17 Mar. 2025
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Sherri Gordon, Health, 27 Mar. 2025
He was released from the hospital on Wednesday after being monitored for three days to ensure no bile was leaking into the bloodstream.
—Michael Russo, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Her symptoms include vomiting up clots of hair, bile and sewing pins; making scary pronouncements in a guttural voice that is not her own; and being unusually attractive to wasps, whose carcasses litter her bedclothes.
—Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2025
The agency also noted that Zinna had no evidence of infectious disease, trauma, or poisoning, and the rescue canine's stomach was empty except for small amounts of hair and bile, per AP.
—Kirsty Hatcher, People.com, 17 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bile
Noun
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The hostility of the state intensified with the BBC's 100 Women list, and a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize.—
Mahrang Baloch,
Time,
10 June 2025
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The hostilities began when Trump lashed out at Musk's criticism of the Republican tax-cut and spending bill, and quickly escalated into an all-out online brawl on Trump's Truth Social and Musk's X, with prominent businessmen, analysts and political names weighing in on the fight.—
Anniek Bao,Dylan Butts,Sam Meredith,
CNBC,
6 June 2025
Noun
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Nearly 90% of natural gas processing, fractionation, and storage is concentrated in four regions in the U.S., each subject to various environmental hazards that will incur greater complications and costs as climate change exacerbates natural disasters’ frequency and severity.—
Erik Kobayashi-Solomon,
Forbes.com,
8 June 2025
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Try supplements: Certain supplements, such as Riboflavin and CoQ10, can help reduce the frequency and severity of attacks.—
Verywell Health,
Verywell Health,
6 June 2025
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Her ability to stay focused in the face of vitriol is a mindset she’s developed through years of being one of the few women on the grid.—
Kim Elsesser,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
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The vitriol grew so intense that her publisher canceled her 40-city book tour.—
Esmeralda Santiago,
New York Times,
21 May 2025
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As to the media statements, Cook could not offer adequate proof of one element ― malice ― and so could not make out a prima facie case for defamation as to the media statements.—
Jay Adkisson,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2025
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The actress, however, bore no malice, moving to Europe until her death from a brain tumor in 2011, aged 58.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
14 May 2025
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Law enforcement officials believe the man, Ramon Morales Reyes, never wrote a letter that Noem and her department shared with a message written in light blue ink expressing anger over Trump’s deportations and threatening to shoot him in the head with a rifle at a rally.—
Mike Balsamo,
Los Angeles Times,
2 June 2025
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Law enforcement officials believe the man, Ramon Morales Reyes, never wrote a letter that Noem and her department shared with a message written in light blue ink expressing anger over Trump's deportations and threatening to shoot him in the head with a rifle at a rally.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
1 June 2025
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The results revealed that pla depletion decreases the virulence and increases the length of plague infections in mice.—
Sam Walters,
Discover Magazine,
31 May 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
Noun
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They are mangled, bottled spiders of venom with humor and cutting, biting Irish lyricism.—
Anne Thompson,
IndieWire,
5 June 2025
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Although the snakes prefer to hide or scare away humans, people who get too close may suffer a painful bite carrying venom that can damage muscle tissue and skin.—
Max Levy,
Denver Post,
31 May 2025
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“Bile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bile. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.
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