beery

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Recent Examples of beery Several years from now, however, if scientists at the Oregon Hatchery Research Center have their way, some chinook salmon will be chasing a very different scent: the rich, beery bouquet of brewer’s yeast. Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 July 2023 In a beery bromance Instagram video posted on Monday (May 15), Combs taught Sheeran how to shotgun a beer. Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 16 May 2023 Founded in 2001, the XFL was loud, beery fun at first. Kevin Cook, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2022 While sanctioned après festivities will be severely curtailed this year, with ski bars closed and beery events canceled, a lot of fun can be had in a parking lot. Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online, 20 Nov. 2020 Something about the smell of beery body odours attracts mosquitoes. Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 4 Mar. 2010
Recent Examples of Synonyms for beery
Adjective
  • The Whitley Atlanta, Georgia Spice things up with a leisurely, boozy afternoon tea on Sundays at The Whitley in Atlanta’s trendy Buckhead neighborhood.
    Kathryn Streeter, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Cans of fizzy yerba maté come from the indie Hong Kong soda company Mezzanine Makers, and boozy beverages are impishly garnished with cocktail umbrellas.
    Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • In one of the most harrowing scenes in the movie, a drunken Douglas Springsteen cajoles a young Bruce into a bedroom slapping game that begins to border on genuine physical abuse.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The jury convicted her of only drunken driving.
    Boston Herald staff, Boston Herald, 22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • When morality clauses first appeared in Hollywood in the 1920s, they were meant to protect studios from scandal—actors getting drunk, producers getting indicted, the usual mayhem.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Clara, grieving in her own way, sneaks out, gets drunk and high and sees her boyfriend without her mom’s permission.
    Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Even Stacey and Florian noticed that Darcey was getting tipsy.
    Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Things only get worse when, after the guests go to bed, a tipsy Solène does cheerleading stunts with Damo by the Jacuzzi instead of working.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Heavily inebriated and with several different drugs racing through his system, 19-year-old Jacob storms into the confrontation and clocks an unknown man hard, sending him to the ground.
    Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Sep. 2025
  • What are foursomes, who is playing, and why on earth is that rather inebriated spectator cosplaying as George Washington?
    Jack Bantock, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Or simply to help other individuals in dire straits — like the widow (Whitney Morgan Cox) and daughter (Veda Cienfuegos) of that inebriate driver, their current plight worsened by the bankruptcy brought on by a Bernie Madoff-like financial predator?
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 30 July 2023
  • The money covers additional shelter beds, more street outreach, rapid rehousing, safe parking and the serial inebriate program.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 June 2023
Adjective
  • Those taking GLP-1s consistently reported feeling less intoxicated than the control group.
    Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Roland Kuenn, 59, faces two felony counts of homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle related to the July 9 car crash that killed Gregory Skaar.
    David Clarey, jsonline.com, 13 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • In the first half of Brag Ingelsby’s series follow-up to Mare of Easttown, Grasso is a slick operator who shifts between tough-guy posturing and a besotted romance with new colleague Lizzie (Alison Oliver).
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The movie opens with Bull (voiced by Adam Devine), the terrier main character, as an adorable little puppy brought home to his besotted owners — depicted, along with most humans in the film, neck down as a facsimile of a pet’s POV.
    Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2025

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“Beery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beery. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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