as in spree
a bout of prolonged or excessive drinking
didn't remember a thing after the all-night bender
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Recent Examples of bender
Writer-director BenDavid Grabinski makes a strong case to change that in an exuberant time travel genre-bender where what’s old often leads to fresh ideas.
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Stephen Saito, Variety, 16 Mar. 2026
Creating and installing the wing-less dragon and its mix of Asian and European accents was no small endeavor for Gretchen Olson, a neon glass bender and founder of Northern Lights Neon.
—Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 6 Mar. 2026
The mine shafts oblige them generously, particularly after a bender or a jilting.
—Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026
Tube benders also use stained glass, phosphorus and mercury to create other colors.
—Noelle Phillips, Denver Post, 11 Jan. 2026
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Stephen Saito, Variety, 16 Mar. 2026
Creating and installing the wing-less dragon and its mix of Asian and European accents was no small endeavor for Gretchen Olson, a neon glass bender and founder of Northern Lights Neon.
—Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 6 Mar. 2026
The mine shafts oblige them generously, particularly after a bender or a jilting.
—Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026
Tube benders also use stained glass, phosphorus and mercury to create other colors.
—Noelle Phillips, Denver Post, 11 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bender
Noun
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Six people were killed in a shooting spree at multiple locations across an Iowa city in an apparent domestic dispute, according to police.—
Jessie DiMartino,
ABC News,
1 June 2026
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Culatta expected there would be a reckoning around ed tech after schools went on a massive spending spree on devices and software during the Covid pandemic.—
Tyler Kingkade,
NBC news,
31 May 2026
Noun
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Our purpose was not to get the campus drunk.—
Peter Hessler,
New Yorker,
31 May 2026
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But while following up the usual drunk-and-disorderlies and petty thefts that come with his new territory, Stilwell gets a report of a body found weighed down at the bottom of the harbor.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
27 May 2026
Noun
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The boys were on a big Michael Jackson music video binge for a while, which was a tricky situation.—
Marah Eakin,
Vulture,
28 May 2026
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As for Spider-Noir, the series has been dropped as an eight-episode binge on Amazon Prime Video.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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“Bender.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bender. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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