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as in bitter
causing intense discomfort to one's skin
a biting wind that only the toughest football fans were willing to endure
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as in sarcastic
marked by the use of wit that is intended to cause hurt feelings
the biting comments by the pundits about the government's inaction
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Recent Examples of biting
Amanda Wicks, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2024
Will Ari craft a biting lyric finally addressing it?
—Catherine Santino, People.com, 31 Oct. 2024
Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 6 Dec. 2024
Their eyes will often dart around, and their brain is active, and the signs include violent limb movements, howling, barking, growling, and even biting.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
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Adjective
The sketch seemed to be SNL’s attempt to balance the cold open’s levity with a more biting tone about the wearying stakes of deciding the nation’s leadership.
—Amanda Wicks, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2024
Will Ari craft a biting lyric finally addressing it?
—Catherine Santino, People.com, 31 Oct. 2024
Verb
The promises of kneecap biting?
—Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 6 Dec. 2024
Their eyes will often dart around, and their brain is active, and the signs include violent limb movements, howling, barking, growling, and even biting.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
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The two are likely headed for a new bitter legal fight with money at stake.Alina Selyukh, NPR, 11 Dec. 2024
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The pith can be bitter, so some people don’t like the taste.Merve Ceylan, Health, 10 Dec. 2024
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The comment quickly spread like wildfire online, causing much confusion about if his comment was sarcastic or a dig at the country crooner.Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 22 Nov. 2024
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While the main cast all reprised their roles, Rapp’s Leighton Murray, the ultra-wealthy, sarcastic sorority girl whose journey of self-discovery was central to the first two seasons, is bidding her farewell.Jordana Comiter, People.com, 21 Nov. 2024
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Chinook helicopters dipped down into a lagoon on the vast lawn of Pepperdine University sucking up water to battle the fire.Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024
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Heller runs Mother through a gantlet of motherhood nightmares — singalong story time at the library, mercurial kid mood swings and the soul-sucking monotony of the daily routine that keeps the world turning.Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 4 Dec. 2024
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The policy modestly increased subsidized enrollment in 2018 and 2019 after a sharp decline in 2017.Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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Small business owners tend to lean Republican and the sharp increase in confidence had been widely anticipated by economists.Lucia Mutikani, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024
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The show isn't satiric so much as amused by the absurd lengths to which the Kaylas of our society will go in pursuit of self-definition.Tom Gliatto, People.com, 10 Dec. 2024
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Mann at his most satiric has Settembrini contributing an essay to a multivolume project whose purpose is to end suffering.George Packer, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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One spring day in Paris many years ago, my wife, Diana, a most penetrating photographer, capable of seeing like no one else, decided, as an experiment, to walk across the city blindfolded.Hisham Matar, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024
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Since the war began in Gaza, more than six months ago, the Israeli magazine +972 has published some of the most penetrating reporting on the Israel Defense Forces’ conduct.Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2024
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One woman applied a dolphin design to her face; one of the men in the group got a barbed wire design running across his neck; while the pick of the bunch saw another of the guys opt for an Illuminati-style pyramid tattoo on his forehead.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
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Under the glaring sun, people poured toward the notorious facility north of Damascus, as traffic stretched for miles and some left their cars to walk the last stretch uphill, past barbed wire fences and watchtowers.Clarissa Ward, CNN, 10 Dec. 2024
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The higher strings aren’t quite as piercing but still shine through.PCMAG, PCMAG, 6 Dec. 2024
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Some of the most piercing instances in Emilia’s journey rely on Audiard’s penchant for indelible imagery.Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024
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“Biting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/biting. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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