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birling

verb

present participle of birl, chiefly Scottish

as in drinking

to take part in drunken revelry spent a good part of his time in Edinburgh birling into the wee small hours of the night

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People can get the stomach bug by eating and drinking food and water contaminated with poop.

— Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 18 July 2026
Alcohol disrupts sleep, but drinking earlier may give your body more time to process it before bedtime, reducing its impact on sleep quality.

— Lauren Panoff, Verywell Health, 17 July 2026

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Three sitting rooms are complemented by a further three members’ social spaces for carousing in, concealed behind a subtle screen (here, DJs including Goldierocks make appearances, and mobile snaps are banned; staff politely place a sticker over mobile camera lenses).

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 May 2026
The team were meek in defeat, but after a weekend carousing and communing in central London, Newcastle fans arrived at Wembley with a collective hangover.

— George Caulkin, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2026

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The Dodgers’ come-from-behind win in Game 5 of the 2024 World Series clinched a series victory over the Yankees and produced the prevailing image of Shohei Ohtani, Freddie Freeman and their teammates reveling on the Yankee Stadium diamond.

— Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 17 July 2026
When the Black Queen’s message arrives in the Riverlands, the king consort, lil’ Oscar Tully, and their new pal Roddy the Ruin are busy reveling, making up ballads dedicated to their own derring-do.

— Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 June 2026

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This is someone’s Super Bowl, if the Super Bowl was about binging 15 pounds of cased beef tubes.

— Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 4 July 2026
Michelle has also faced ongoing comments on her appearance ‒ a 2011 cartoon depicted her as overweight and bingeing on hamburgers and more recently, she has been accused of taking Ozempic to lose weight.

— Jennifer Hassan, USA Today, 15 June 2026

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