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bender, binge, bust, carousal, carouse, drunk, spree, toot, wassail
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Fabiculanan also joins the cornerback jamboree this spring and highly touted freshman Trent McDuffie will be added to the mix this summer. — Mike Vorel, The Seattle Times, "Washington opens spring football this week. These are the top story lines to watch.," 1 Apr. 2019 On August 12, 2017, a community organizer from North Carolina named Heather Redding drove to Charlottesville, Virginia, to protest the white nationalist jamboree known as Unite the Right. — Shaun Assael, Glamour, "The Secret Fight to Save Confederate Monuments," 16 Aug. 2018 Much of the attention at the biennial aerospace jamboree was on still-developing forms of air transport that were widely dismissed as science fiction barely a few years ago. — Robert Wall, WSJ, "Air Taxis and Self-Driving Aircraft: Aviation Industry Faces Its Future," 21 July 2018 The program has expanded over the years and now includes sectional and state track and field meets for Division 1 and 2 schools and four basketball jamborees during the academic year. — Andrew Higginbottom, BostonGlobe.com, "Bringing special athletes into the game," 22 June 2018 Apopka scored touchdowns on the three of its first 10 plays and rolled to two lopsided wins in a spring football jamboree at Deltona Pine Ridge on Thursday night. — Chris Hays, OrlandoSentinel.com, "Apopka wins two in spring football jamboree at Pine Ridge," 24 May 2018 At this month’s Harare International Festival of Arts, where Mr Ncube was performing, Freshlyground, a band with members from across southern Africa, ended the jamboree with a song ridiculing Mr Mugabe, to raucous applause. — The Economist, "Satire is booming after Robert Mugabe’s fall," 24 May 2018 The eight-week season will begin with a jamboree at Burbank High School with tournaments hosted in a different neighborhood each Saturday. — Jason Jones, sacbee, "Kings help launch youth summer league. ‘Sport has the power to create profound change’ | The Sacramento Bee," 22 May 2018 In what is becoming a Valley spring football trend, Phoenix Desert Vista is the next school that will host other high schools for a spring football jamboree. — Richard Obert, azcentral, "Desert Vista hosting five other high school teams for Spring Football Showcase," 4 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'jamboree.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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