as in drunkenness
habitual or excessive drinking of intoxicants
a treatment center for those suffering from alcoholism
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Recent Examples of alcoholism
Despite initial denials from the company, which blamed the illness on alcoholism or other worker behaviors, investigation revealed that the cause was lead poisoning.
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Tom Frieden, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
Her father died in 1954, at the age of forty-seven, owing to complications from alcoholism; her mother died a few years later, at forty-six, of the same cause, leaving Burnett as the guardian of her teen-age half sister.
—Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
Poverty, existential fears, alcoholism were part of the daily life of many families in Lobitos who tried to subsist on fishing or farming.
—Sabrina Weiss, The Dial, 23 Sep. 2025
The idea was to reduce crime, alcoholism and recidivism, said Jack Rein, executive director of The Oscar Getz Museum of Bourbon History in Bardstown, Kentucky.
—Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 16 Sep. 2025
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Tom Frieden, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
Her father died in 1954, at the age of forty-seven, owing to complications from alcoholism; her mother died a few years later, at forty-six, of the same cause, leaving Burnett as the guardian of her teen-age half sister.
—Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
Poverty, existential fears, alcoholism were part of the daily life of many families in Lobitos who tried to subsist on fishing or farming.
—Sabrina Weiss, The Dial, 23 Sep. 2025
The idea was to reduce crime, alcoholism and recidivism, said Jack Rein, executive director of The Oscar Getz Museum of Bourbon History in Bardstown, Kentucky.
—Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 16 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for alcoholism
drunkenness
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Begging or drunkenness could mean a week to a couple of months on a chain gang, grading and paving roads, fixing bridges, hauling debris, and otherwise helping to construct the fast-growing city.—
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21 Oct. 2025
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Not even a day after Bethea’s denial of his confession due to drunkenness, a white jail guard said that Bethea had confessed privately to him.—
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16 Oct. 2025
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“Alcoholism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alcoholism. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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