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Recent Examples of alehouse
At the airport, a group of cadets loitered by a lactation pod, and people at the terminal alehouse seemed to be having a genuinely good time.
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Anna Wiener, New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2026
Carrying news, satire and story into places where expensive books had seldom reached, they were sold for pennies, tacked to alehouse walls and sung aloud for the illiterate.
—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 8 Nov. 2025
On a video call Finger demonstrated a few use cases, including a woman sitting in a modern Los Angeles garage that became a woman riding a horse in an old Western town, or two men sitting at a backyard table who were suddenly in a Medieval alehouse.
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 10 July 2025
The classic alehouse is a stone’s throw away from Leeds’ home ground, and on April 28, the fans were in a celebratory mood.
—Felipe Cardenas, New York Times, 15 May 2025
This Livermore movie theater and alehouse will show the NFC championship in high-def on a 30-foot screen.
—Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2024
The London Evening Post didn’t give her name, simply identifying her as the keeper of the Queen’s Head alehouse.
—Katie Dancey-Downs, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2022
The alehouse at 9501 W. 171st St. in Tinley Park (708-966-2051) hosts a music series on the patio beginning May 27.
—Vickie Snow Jurkowski, Daily Southtown, 8 May 2018
In the late seventies, the bar came under the ownership of the proprietor of a now defunct Bronx alehouse called the Liffy, like the river.
—David Kortava, The New Yorker, 9 July 2017
Anna Wiener, New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2026
Carrying news, satire and story into places where expensive books had seldom reached, they were sold for pennies, tacked to alehouse walls and sung aloud for the illiterate.
—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 8 Nov. 2025
On a video call Finger demonstrated a few use cases, including a woman sitting in a modern Los Angeles garage that became a woman riding a horse in an old Western town, or two men sitting at a backyard table who were suddenly in a Medieval alehouse.
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 10 July 2025
The classic alehouse is a stone’s throw away from Leeds’ home ground, and on April 28, the fans were in a celebratory mood.
—Felipe Cardenas, New York Times, 15 May 2025
This Livermore movie theater and alehouse will show the NFC championship in high-def on a 30-foot screen.
—Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2024
The London Evening Post didn’t give her name, simply identifying her as the keeper of the Queen’s Head alehouse.
—Katie Dancey-Downs, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2022
The alehouse at 9501 W. 171st St. in Tinley Park (708-966-2051) hosts a music series on the patio beginning May 27.
—Vickie Snow Jurkowski, Daily Southtown, 8 May 2018
In the late seventies, the bar came under the ownership of the proprietor of a now defunct Bronx alehouse called the Liffy, like the river.
—David Kortava, The New Yorker, 9 July 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for alehouse
Noun
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The park’s visitor center, in a 1935 roadhouse that sat on Route 66, contains displays with Route 66 memorabilia (and a gift shop with hundreds of Route 66 items).—
Ginger Crichton,
Midwest Living,
12 Apr. 2026
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Michelob Ultra Roadhouse The roadhouse is on Simmons Banks Plaza, which surrounds Dickies Arena.—
Brayden Garcia
January 8,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
8 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Not to mention $560 is an excellent market price for a bistro set made with durability top of mind.—
Julia Harrison,
Architectural Digest,
29 Apr. 2026
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At this cheffy Columbia bistro, Mother’s Day will entail a live jazz brunch with a la carte menu options such as mini beignets, pimento-cheese croque madames and lobster quiches.—
Jane Godiner,
Baltimore Sun,
29 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The original plot centered on the arrival of a submissive, quiet mail-order bride and her father from China, who sneaked into the country to marry a nightclub owner who had no idea that his mother had brought the girl over for him.—
Marla Jo Fisher,
Daily News,
4 May 2026
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Brooksbank, a former bartender and once the manager of the London nightclub Mahiki, has worked for Casamigos Tequila and more recently as a marketing executive in Portugal.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
4 May 2026
Noun
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Aside from the official Fan Festival, there are plenty of pubs and bars planning their own Texas-sized World Cup celebrations, from sprawling newcomer Craft with its bocce court for halftime games to tried-and-tested favorites like The Londoner, Cannon's, and Harwood Arms.—
Jonathan Thompson,
Travel + Leisure,
3 May 2026
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One notable find was located beneath the New Castle pub in Sneinton, where a hidden chamber, approximately 200 years old, was discovered after a wall was knocked down, imbuing the journey with a note of adventure.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
3 May 2026
Noun
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Foothills Brewing is downtown's largest and oldest brewpub and offers a full menu of pub grub.—
Nicole Letts,
Southern Living,
14 Apr. 2026
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In the resulting readers’ choice awards, the only category that didn’t include a North Carolina winner was best brewpub.—
Jenna Eason,
Charlotte Observer,
12 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Toast to history at Ye Olde Trail Tavern Restaurant, Ohio’s oldest tavern, built in 1827.—
Sarah Miller,
Midwest Living,
29 Apr. 2026
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Keep in mind that despite the significance of the date of July 4, 1776, royalists and republicans had been arguing in print, pamphlets, taverns and on town greens long before 1776.—
Staff Report,
Hartford Courant,
27 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The show takes place in a pop-up venue on the north end of the park that is set up to feel like the kind of late-night cabaret Alvarez Guedes would have performed in during his heyday.—
Pedro Portal,
Miami Herald,
30 Apr. 2026
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Their own experiences in cabaret range from nearly a lifetime to just beginning.—
Regina Elling,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Two-year-old Mala Audio Bar sets its cocktails to the crackle of vintage vinyl, while Konbini hides behind a grocery storefront, opening into a Colombian-Japanese speakeasy where disco and highballs collide amid a beautiful crowd.—
Allie Lazar,
Condé Nast Traveler,
6 May 2026
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Other attractions at the event will be a speakeasy on the porch where bartenders will serve drinks, a VW bus from the 1970s and a VW bug in the side yard where people exit, and a tent holding a 1970s disco with a DJ.—
Myrna Petlicki,
Chicago Tribune,
4 May 2026
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“Alehouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alehouse. Accessed 7 May. 2026.
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