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Recent Examples of birlThere was sea salt in the air, and sleepless seagulls were birling in the darkness overhead.—Douglas Stuart, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2020 In some parts of the United States, birling contests are annual events.—Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2019
Many foreign attendees at San Fermín have no stomach for the spectacle and spend their early evenings carousing in local bars instead.
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Tony Perrottet,
Smithsonian Magazine,
30 June 2025
These increasingly crazed visitors spend their days lazing on the shore, drinking and eating, carousing with prostitutes, and abusing Rosa (played by B-movie actress Leonora Fani, who would also star in the equally notorious vacation film Giallo in Venice) for their own entertainment.
Still grieving the death of his wife and the imprisonment of his son, Brandis binges on booze but possesses a sharp and intuitive mind, even if his family life is in disarray.
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Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
12 Sep. 2025
Historically linked to meditation and traditional Japanese dining culture, today’s iterations are all about modern living needs that suit every whim—lounging while binging on the White Lotus reruns, creating a reading nook, or simply losing oneself in texts at the end of the day.
One of his sons, Thomas (Dean-Charles Chapman), though hardly old enough to be in long pants, wears shining armor, while the other son, Hal (Timothée Chalamet), is a slouch who wastes his life in roistering.
Image Image In the village of Midsomer Norton, about 50 miles away, 100 people or so turned out for a community event to wassail three small apple trees in the local park.
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Stephen Castle,
New York Times,
13 Feb. 2025
This drink was often used as part of wassailing in England.
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BHG Test Kitchen,
Better Homes & Gardens,
1 June 2023
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