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Recent Examples of Bourbon
Killian Baarlaer, Louisville Courier Journal, 23 Aug. 2025
Expect cozy notes of bourbon vanilla, vanilla Madagascar, amyris, and cocoa shell, plus a superfine champagne sparkle that gives skin a radiant gleam.
—Annie Blackman, Allure, 15 Aug. 2025
Connie Ogle
updated May 28, Miami Herald, 28 May 2026
Marinated and glazed with a mixture of bourbon, cola, balsamic vinegar, Worcestershire, and brown sugar, these skewers grill up fast and come off the grill deliciously charred.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 23 May 2026
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Noun
Canada is dropping its retaliatory tariffs on a set of American products that includes distilled spirits, according to media reports, marking a positive step forward for Kentucky's marquee bourbon industry, industry leaders said.
—Killian Baarlaer, Louisville Courier Journal, 23 Aug. 2025
Expect cozy notes of bourbon vanilla, vanilla Madagascar, amyris, and cocoa shell, plus a superfine champagne sparkle that gives skin a radiant gleam.
—Annie Blackman, Allure, 15 Aug. 2025
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The cocktail menu, which the restaurant hopes will get a real workout on Friday and Saturday late-nights, includes highlights like the Ferrero Rocher Espresso Martini with Grey Goose, hazelnut syrup and Café Bustelo and the Smooth Talker, with bourbon and coffee bitters.
—Connie Ogle
updated May 28, Miami Herald, 28 May 2026
Marinated and glazed with a mixture of bourbon, cola, balsamic vinegar, Worcestershire, and brown sugar, these skewers grill up fast and come off the grill deliciously charred.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 23 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Bourbon
- archconservative
- stuffed shirt
- traditionalist
- neocon
- square
- neoconservative
- Colonel Blimp
- paleoconservative
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Those two issues, in particular, women’s empowerment and agrarian reform, went over like a lead balloon with the archconservatives of the country, especially religious.—
Fiction Non Fiction,
Literary Hub,
7 May 2026
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Rachmaninoff has gone from being widely viewed as a musical archconservative to a protomodernist.—
Mark Swed,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Apr. 2023
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With his piano-pounding performances, wild vocals, bouffant hair and makeup, Little Richard burst onto the musical scene in the 1950s and shook up the stuffed shirts with a string of his hit songs that got both black and white people dancing.—
NBC News,
NBC News,
9 May 2020
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Karen Knorr’s photos of the private members’ clubs of London in the early 1980s are full of stuffed shirts wearing gleaming brogues.—
The Economist,
The Economist,
25 Feb. 2020
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Details of the new car include a choice of gearboxes between a 6-speed manual for traditionalists or a high-tech 10-speed automatic with steering-wheel shift paddles.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
3 June 2026
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Backpack-rap traditionalists stayed in their own corner, too.—
Jeff Ihaza,
VIBE.com,
2 June 2026
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Moreover, during the Iraq war, the Jewish community could effectively argue that framing the conflict as a Jewish neocon conspiracy was baseless, even as some neoconservatives influenced policy.—
Andrew Silow-Carroll,
Sun Sentinel,
9 Mar. 2026
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The former leftists who dreamed of spreading democracy at the barrel of a gun, after all, were only one part of the neocon movement.—
Michelle Goldberg,
Mercury News,
4 Mar. 2026
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Location The Connaught curves around the corner of Carlos Place just off Berkeley square, in the chi chi enclave of Mayfair Village, cheek by jowl with London’s nicest restaurants and shops.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
3 June 2026
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The Scotland fans had congregated in the old town square, so when the area’s bars ran out of alcohol, the riot police arrived expecting trouble.—
Jordan Campbell,
New York Times,
3 June 2026
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Senor and Stephens are neoconservatives who hardly needed to be convinced that the members of progressive movements were not friends of the Jewish people.—
Eyal Press,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
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Moreover, during the Iraq war, the Jewish community could effectively argue that framing the conflict as a Jewish neocon conspiracy was baseless, even as some neoconservatives influenced policy.—
Andrew Silow-Carroll,
Sun Sentinel,
9 Mar. 2026
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In Zac’s report, Schoonmaker addressed Powell’s legendary filmmaking partnership with Emeric Pressburger, which spawned films such as The Red Shoes, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp and Black Narcissus.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
22 Aug. 2025
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Powell is perhaps best known for his creative partnership with Emeric Pressburger, which produced some of the most brilliant British films of the 20th century, including The Life of Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), A Matter of Life and Death (1946), Black Narcissus (1947) and The Red Shoes (1948).—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
30 July 2025
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The New York Times columnist has penned an unusually smart article identifying the late paleoconservative writer Samuel T. Francis as a prophet of Trumpism.—
Jeet Heer,
New Republic,
22 Sep. 2017
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In his final act of excommunication, Buckley took a stand against the paleoconservative Pat Buchanan in 1991 for expressing opposition to the Persian Gulf war in terms that were both incendiary and undeniably anti-Semitic.—
DAMON LINKER,
New York Times,
8 May 2017
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“Bourbon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Bourbon. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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