bacchanal

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Recent Examples of bacchanal Los Angeles is a main character—a despoiled paradise where celebrities mistake their privilege for immortality, and abandon responsibility when the inevitable consequences of their long-term bacchanal kick in. Elizabeth Nelson, The Atlantic, 31 July 2024 This resurgent interest in bacchanals — beer-cchanals? — is not limited to San Diego County. Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2024 Friendship is the electronic music party cruise from Gary Richards, the longtime DJ and party promoter who launched the sailing bacchanal in 2018 and also founded HARD events. Katie Bain, Billboard, 29 Jan. 2024 When Hancock became governor of Massachusetts, his inauguration was a sober political ceremony that quickly morphed into a bacchanal. Guy Denton, National Review, 20 Jan. 2024 See all Example Sentences for bacchanal 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bacchanal
Noun
  • Yet the mass of people chooses lives of quiet or flamboyant desperation hoping to find meaning in orgies of hormonal gratifications.
    Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 1 Dec. 2024
  • Among Somner’s more memorable demonstrations of that skill was overseeing the wild airplane orgy scene in The Wolf of Wall Street.
    Denise Petski, Deadline, 29 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Branded events at Cannes, Martha’s Vineyard and Sundance have replaced Puff’s bacchanalias, and Michael Rubin’s annual Hamptons White Party is now the place to see and be seen.
    Amy DuBois Barnett, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Unlike recent eat-the-rich offerings, Blink Twice is only partially about ultra-wealthy bacchanalia.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • For decades, Xochimilco has been popular with weekend revelers and tourists riding on colorful wooden boats called trajineras.
    Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Among the revelers was Shelley Meuser, the wife of Representative Dan Meuser, whose district includes a part of Luzerne County.
    Philip Montgomery, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Obviously, in their youth, both princes made plenty of headlines with their party animal antics at nightclubs in and around London.
    Caroline Thayer, Fox News, 6 Oct. 2024
  • To give yourself or your favorite party animal the perfect gift this year, keep scrolling and add to cart.
    Kelsey Legg, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The gala will take place on Friday, January 24, 2025 at the Grand Hyatt Deer Valley in Utah.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 22 Nov. 2024
  • From luxury galas to interactive pop-ups, creating a meaningful experience doesn’t always require a massive budget—just creativity and focusing on what matters most: acknowledging your hardworking team.
    Monica Gomez, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The man in charge of this band of merrymakers is Nigel Petersen — a thinly disguised Lorne Michaels — an inscrutable star-maker whose whims have shaped late-night comedy since the early 1980s.
    Ron Charles, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2023
  • According to the study, led by Shevach Friedler and published in Fertility and Sterility, a medical merrymaker visited the fertility clinic regularly for a year.
    Patrick Morgan, Discover Magazine, 14 Jan. 2011
Noun
  • In that moment, no matter what part of oldies culture these partygoers resonated with, Modelo beers were raised to the sky in appreciation for the music and the moment.
    Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2024
  • The source of those flames: a Christmas celebration that climaxes with ten helicopters dropping fake snow on the partygoers, a stunt that turns out to be a bad idea because of strong winds and some not-up-to-code fire extinguishers.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2024

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“Bacchanal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bacchanal. Accessed 10 Dec. 2024.

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