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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 Another, unable to reach dry land, dug his spiked boots into a slippery timber and birled downriver.—Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2019 In some parts of the United States, birling contests are annual events.—Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2019
Sure, standing around drinking beer and grilling is fun.
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Parker Hall,
Wired News,
21 June 2025
Police allege the suspect got a haircut at 11:30 a.m. on the day of his son’s death, then drank beer and took shots from noon until 2:40 p.m. while the infant baked outside in the parking lot.
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Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
20 June 2025
That night, Noonan caroused at the hotel bar with James Collopy, the district superintendent of the civil-aviation board.
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Laurie Gwen Shapiro,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
In late March, a few hundred people descended on the Mall at Bay Plaza in the Bronx with young-looking shoppers carousing and running through the complex, based on a TikTok video.
Edwards wasn’t among the masses who binged Bridgerton.
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Mia Galuppo,
HollywoodReporter,
18 June 2025
Her love of science came from watching PBS shows as a kid with her mom and spending too much time binging Doctor Who.
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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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