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
Curcumin, the active compound in turmeric, may cause the gallbladder to contract, emptying it of bile.
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Team Verywell Health, Verywell Health, 25 Nov. 2025
Fiber binds with bile acids in the gut, so the liver has to use cholesterol to produce more bile.
—Cynthia Sass, Health, 13 Nov. 2025
Two weeks later — four days before Christmas 2018 — hepatologists diagnosed Ryland with a rare, life-threatening liver disease called biliary atresia, which blocks bile from going from the liver to the small intestines.
—Brad Schmitt, Nashville Tennessean, 28 Oct. 2025
All brittleness and bile in the hands of Diego Luna, Valentín’s quiet righteousness rubs up against his cellmate’s grandiosity in all the wrong ways — at first.
—Blythe Marks, Them., 17 Oct. 2025
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Astringent Hachiya persimmons must fully soften at room temperature before eating because chilling too early locks in bitterness.—
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As oblivion approached, with all its attendant possibilities of panic or bitterness, Bowie summoned the generosity to evoke the ordeal of one prematurely dying man while also thinking and creating at the no less vast scale of life itself.—
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After years of fighting for its survival in the face of hacks and growing regulatory hostility, crypto’s fortunes abruptly change.—
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Jewish and civil rights groups blasted the move as weakening safeguards, fueling criticism that Mamdani’s early agenda signals hostility toward Israel and the Jewish community.—
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Internal bleeding covers a wide range of severity, from life-threatening injuries to bruising.—
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Moore said the department has since adjusted both its tactics and decision-making protocols for wildland fires, particularly in high fire severity zones.—
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Most of the vitriol has been aimed at the UAE, with Emiratis largely exercising restraint — and, unlike the Qatar episode, both are avoiding personal attacks on rulers (or their mothers).—
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The post was a far cry from the vitriol that’s come from Van Hollen on all things Israel.—
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In Jewish terms, our own hearts start to harden, not out of malice, but out of survival.—
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Prosecutors could not prove malice in the case.—
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Did the man go too far, or was his anger justified?—
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As Blacc hinted at, there is more than a little anger to go around about what happened before, during and since the fires, along with the sorrow and thousand other emotions.—
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Donald Trump’s back-to-back tirades this week against Somali immigrants in Minnesota, many of whom are U.S. citizens, brought into the open the kind of virulence that, during his first term, the President mostly tried to keep behind closed doors.—
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One Pasteurella-like microbe carried genetic hints of virulence and has ties to deadly outbreaks in modern African elephants.—
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Its deadly stinger was full of venom, much more potent and deadly than any snake.—
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In a clip of Pole to Pole with Will Smith, obtained by LiveScience, the 57-year-old actor could be seen on a boat going down a river in Ecuador with venom expert Bryan Fry, expedition leader Carla Perez and Indigenous Waorani guides when the group notices a gigantic anaconda on the banks.—
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“Bile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bile. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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