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But a person expiring between the ages of one and 44 years is more likely to fall under what the charts render a yawning wedge of bilious turquoise: the color of dying by accident. New York Times, "What Makes an American Hero? (Or a Canadian One?)," 12 Dec. 2019

Guided by the tastes of critics and academics, the museums and galleries fill up with the ugly, the sordid, the cruel, the bilious, the strange. Kyle Smith, National Review, "Now Renoir Is Problematic," 27 Aug. 2019

Green is nice, but not in the bilious avatars of Excel and FaceTime and Google Sheets. Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, "Why Is Everything So Hideous?," 2 May 2018

The themes seemed familiar, the outsider's distrust of the systems and structures of the state, a more bilious paranoia. Michael Paterniti, GQ, "Dragonman, the Man Who Sells “People-Hunting Guns”," 7 Mar. 2018

At that point, Trump’s bilious rhetoric hadn’t been validated by any primary wins, and no credible person was willing to risk his or her reputation to support a polarizing bigot with no evident path to victory. Justin Peters, Slate Magazine, "Firing Jeffrey Lord Doesn’t Fix CNN’s Jeffrey Lord Problem," 11 Aug. 2017

Those who only know Simon Heffer from his somewhat bilious writings in the Daily Mail might be tempted to ignore his book on this period. The Economist, "The decadent late-Victorian and Edwardian era," 7 Oct. 2017

Another Harvard law professor, Noah Feldman, argues that the president’s slanderous accusation that Barack Obama tapped his phones in Trump Tower constitutes an impeachable offence, along with Trump’s bilious defamation of the press. Jacob Weisberg, Slate Magazine, "The Only Way Trump Gets Impeached," 19 May 2017

And may this be a lesson to never make contact with your sibling’s bilious male offspring again. Richard Lawson, vanityfair.com, "Jennifer Lawrence’s Nephews Strike Again," 19 July 2017

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