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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.
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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
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
Founded in 2001, the XFL was loud, beery fun at first.
—Kevin Cook, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2022
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
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
Founded in 2001, the XFL was loud, beery fun at first.
—Kevin Cook, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for beery
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Survey data showed that Naperville police made 258 drunken driving arrests in 2024, a 51.8% increase over the 170 made in 2023.—
Carolyn Stein,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Aug. 2025
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Matters are complicated by Olivia's drunken uncle, Sir Toby Belch (John Ellison Conlee), serving-woman Maria (Daphne Rubin-Vega), and Belch's friend Sir Andrew Aguecheek (Ferguson).—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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In his memoir, Perry recalled how Aniston was the first costar to confront him about his troubles despite him never having been drunk on set.—
Mekishana Pierre,
EW.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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In August 2024, the nursing home was penalized when federal surveyors found that two residents were leaving the nursing home without signing out and then returning drunk.—
Ciara McCarthy,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
8 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The job is a ball, interactions take strategy, tipsy men are the obstacles — and obviously, the tips are the prize.—
Skyler Caruso,
People.com,
2 May 2025
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Gently fold the tipsy cherries into the mousse and add some of the remaining liquor (if desired).—
Catharine Kaufman,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Mar. 2025
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After Clark returns to the Fortress of Solitude, there’s a large crash and a very inebriated Kara Zor-El comes plummeting through the wall.—
Monica Mercuri,
Forbes.com,
13 July 2025
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As the movie begins wrapping up, his Kryptonian cousin Kara Zor-El aka Supergirl (played here by Milly Alcock of House of the Dragon) crashes into Superman’s icy hideaway, more than a little inebriated.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Vulture,
11 July 2025
Adjective
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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
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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
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The attorney said Stephens, based on his wife and sister-in-law’s testimony regarding his recent behavior, likely was heavily intoxicated at the time.—
City News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 July 2025
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Of the 85 people who became intoxicated, 47 were men, 38 were women and their average age was 43.—
Hope Karnopp,
jsonline.com,
27 July 2025
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What too few asked was whether we were meant to realize what’s going on sooner than Irons’s besotted suitor, a man blinded by his romanticized, Orientalist fantasies.—
A.A. Dowd,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2025
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The subtext is so obvious that it can hardly be called subtext, and yet my idiotic, besotted heart continued to thump in the direction of a happy ending.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
6 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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No one should expect an even approximate impersonation of the shaggy McCartney and beatific Wonder, but the two of them can’t even seem to come to an agreement on whether or not Gex is meant to be blind.—
Todd Gilchrist,
Variety,
8 Aug. 2025
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Rosenberg stopped talking to Adams and began pummelling him on the air, accusing him of turning a blind eye to antisemitism while also knocking him for his federal corruption indictment.—
Josephine Stratman,
New York Daily News,
1 Aug. 2025
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“Beery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beery. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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