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 allows bile to drain out of the liver and is used to prevent liver failure.
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Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025
Without bile your poop would be a pale silver or clay color.
—Brian Robert Boulay, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2025
This condition means Olivia’s bile ducts are blocked, so bile builds up in her liver and damages it, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
—Bella Waters, Kansas City Star, 18 July 2025
Horgan’s Eva Garvey is funny and nurturing and grounded but also quite lonely and bitter, a character whose love and bile hold Bad Sisters together.
—Judy Berman, Time, 15 July 2025
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Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025
Without bile your poop would be a pale silver or clay color.
—Brian Robert Boulay, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2025
This condition means Olivia’s bile ducts are blocked, so bile builds up in her liver and damages it, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
—Bella Waters, Kansas City Star, 18 July 2025
Horgan’s Eva Garvey is funny and nurturing and grounded but also quite lonely and bitter, a character whose love and bile hold Bad Sisters together.
—Judy Berman, Time, 15 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bile
Noun
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Delicious and full of flavor, the roast contains brown sugar that balances out the bitterness of the beer, while vinegar adds a hint of brightness.—
Melinda Salchert,
Southern Living,
30 Sep. 2025
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Additions like maple and honey round out the bitterness and tartness, creating balanced cocktails with depth and finesse.—
Essence,
Essence,
29 Sep. 2025
Noun
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For example, in a fiery defense of federal aid to the citizens of Alabama and Georgia devastated by recent Native American hostilities, Adams invoked Congress’s war powers, while calling attention to a deeper hypocrisy.—
Time,
Time,
24 Sep. 2025
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Even countries like Iran, which have long used the Palestinian cause as a pretext for hostility, would now face a diplomatic reckoning.—
Faisal J. Abbas,
semafor.com,
24 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Vrabel downplayed the severity of the injury.—
Doug Kyed,
Boston Herald,
26 Sep. 2025
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Its severity varies depending on the strain and species that is infected.—
Kelli Arseneau,
jsonline.com,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Much of the vitriol centers on the fact that Sandu is a woman.—
Christian Edwards,
CNN Money,
26 Sep. 2025
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And as if a constant stream of social media vitriol wasn’t enough of an insult to the venerable lawns, they are subjected to constant meteorological insults as well.—
Paul Cappiello,
Louisville Courier Journal,
24 Sep. 2025
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More than avoiding malice, we are called to take responsibility for the impact of our words.—
Andrew Weinstein,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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Understand that controlling behaviors may stem from fear and insecurity rather than malice.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Yet Lupino brings such intensity and anger to her performance that the film’s register shifts into something far darker — so dark, in fact, that a prologue and epilogue Jack Warner insisted be added to make the movie more glamorous focus on a suicide attempt!—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
25 Sep. 2025
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In the affidavit, a detective noted that Decker — who was divorced from his daughters’ mother — refused to sign a parenting plan that required him to seek mental health treatment and domestic violence anger management.—
Tim Stelloh,
NBC news,
25 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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Networks and stations should know that such venom could now carry sizable public pushback.—
Newsweek Contributors,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Sep. 2025
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Despite being the most abundant, their venom is not very potent, the wildlife agency said.—
Kirsten Fiscus,
Nashville Tennessean,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Bile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bile. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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