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 report noted that the dog's stomach was mostly empty except for small amounts of hair and bile.
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CBS News, 15 Mar. 2025
Noting the dog's partial mummification and severe decomposition, the report found that the dog's stomach was mostly empty except for small amounts of hair and bile.
—Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
Advertisement The report noted that the dog's stomach was mostly empty except for small amounts of hair and bile.
—TIME, 14 Mar. 2025
The dog's stomach was empty, with only small amounts of hair and bile being discovered, according to the report.
—Tracy Wright, Fox News, 16 Mar. 2025
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CBS News, 15 Mar. 2025
Noting the dog's partial mummification and severe decomposition, the report found that the dog's stomach was mostly empty except for small amounts of hair and bile.
—Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
Advertisement The report noted that the dog's stomach was mostly empty except for small amounts of hair and bile.
—TIME, 14 Mar. 2025
The dog's stomach was empty, with only small amounts of hair and bile being discovered, according to the report.
—Tracy Wright, Fox News, 16 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for bile
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bile
Noun
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Stolarz’s inclination to shout instructions at teammates on the ice, often with serious levels of hostility in the name of competition, comes to him naturally.—
Joshua Kloke,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
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Datta writes that Indians had faced violent treatment at the hands of Japanese forces, even if the Chinese community bore the brunt of the Japanese hostility.—
H.M.A. Leow,
JSTOR Daily,
7 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Type 2 diabetes treatments can vary based on the severity of your condition, your lifestyle, and your overall health.—
Julia Ries,
Health,
9 Apr. 2025
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In some studies, Vitamin A has been shown to reduce the severity of measles and the risk of death from the virus — but these studies were among highly malnourished populations in low-income countries.—
Sara Moniuszko,
CBS News,
8 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Even asking that question today can result in a partisan backlash of vitriol and accusation.—
Lonnie Groot,
The Orlando Sentinel,
6 Apr. 2025
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But the recent vitriol online may threaten the peaceable mood of the campus, particularly when Steve Glinick moves from Rhode Island to his summer home at Chautauqua, where his daughter, Emily Glinick, lives year-round.—
Christopher Maag,
New York Times,
3 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Slightly off-topic comments can derail it so far away from the original point, and it isn't always done with malice.—
Peter Suciu,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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To borrow another logical principle, Hanlon's razor: Don't ascribe to malice that which can be otherwise explained by rank incompetence.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Mar. 2025
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Damn, again, my woulda, shoulda anger steams beneath a somewhat placid exterior.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
13 Apr. 2025
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So, Joe comes in with a lot of hostility, a lot of anger, a lot of rage for what happened.—
Stephen Schaefer,
Boston Herald,
13 Apr. 2025
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In Canada, modest supply management policies keep farmgate and farmer pay prices higher, while disincentivizing the buildout of fast-paced, crowded and large scale production facilities at the heart of avian flu virulence.—
Errol Schweizer,
Forbes,
24 Mar. 2025
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Everything about the movement surprised political observers: its virulence, its magnitude, its provincial origins, its apparent lack of structure and leadership, and its adamant refusal to be co-opted by existing political parties and unions.—
Arthur Goldhammer,
Foreign Affairs,
12 Dec. 2018
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Chung also used a powerful MRI scanner to produce images of the octopuses’ brains and internal organs, discovering that the males had larger venom glands than females despite their smaller size.—
Jack Guy,
CNN,
13 Mar. 2025
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To take one example, biologists studying the venom of a Gila monster found a hormone that is the basis of the new generation of weight-loss drugs like Wegovy and Ozempic.—
Simon Montlake,
The Christian Science Monitor,
12 Mar. 2025
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“Bile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bile. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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