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Example sentences for: bitter

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‘That was how we found T2R1, the first bitter receptor, and, subsequently, a whole family of T2Rs’, says Zuker.
It announced a military occupation destined to endure beyond the Civil War (or War between the States, as it is known in the south) into the Reconstruction period — for a total of 14 bitter years.
The salty and sour receptors may be very different from the GPCRs involved in bitter, sweet, and umami perception, which bind complex molecules on the outside of the cell and transmit a signal into the cell.
The economic history of Brazil is one of punctured enthusiasms--of brief episodes of hope followed by bitter disappointment.
But, says neurobiologist and olfaction expert Lawrence C. Katz (Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States), ‘the onus is now on people who believe otherwise [than the labelled-line model] to provide compelling proof for the cross-fibre theory because now, at least at the periphery, the evidence is compelling for a labelled line for bitter, sweet, and umami’.