as in merrymaking
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as in drinking
to take part in drunken revelry
spent all of shore leave carousing with his mates
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Recent Examples of carousing
Jennifer Leigh Parker, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Noun
Their spaces are meant for gathering and carousing—not just looking at.
—Jennifer Leigh Parker, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for carousing
Noun
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Their everlasting merrymaking might seem warm and fuzzy at first glance, but in truth, there is a gloomy undercurrent to their existence, hiding just beneath the surface.—
Tomris Laffly,
Variety,
25 May 2025
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Alternatively, the Perry Lane Hotel, as well as the brand-new, Ann Savannah, will put you in the heart of the merrymaking.—
Madeline Weinfield,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Mar. 2025
Verb
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With that goal in mind, Dijkstra has constructed a scheme to ensure that King Radovid stops drinking and sulking over Jaskier and embraces his role as one of the few remaining leaders who can oppose Emhyr’s army.—
Scott Meslow,
Vulture,
30 Oct. 2025
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If your cat is not drinking enough, try to make water more enticing by adding a drop of tuna juice for flavor.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Oct. 2025
Noun
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This Halloween, there are no lights, no revelry, no sugar highs.—
Danielle Bacher,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
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By the end of the game, hundreds of shirtless brethren had joined in on the revelry, stretching across four sections and making headlines.—
Justin Williams,
New York Times,
26 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The jollity extends to the audience, which if Friday’s night’s crowd was indication is largely filled with family and friends of the large cast and who are prone to applaud and whoop at the end of every scene.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
12 Aug. 2025
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The free-living, hard-drinking Brett uses wit and jollity to mask her inner desperation.—
Tony Perrottet,
Smithsonian Magazine,
30 June 2025
Noun
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To add to the hilarity, one of the dachshunds appeared to have chewed through a couch cushion and somehow gotten stuck inside it, with its head and legs filmed protruding through the torn fabric.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Oct. 2025
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This quickly descended into hilarity when the coaches further ambushed their unwilling challengers with a full-court press for the entire 12 minutes.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
25 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Back at Focus Fest, Liam Newman, a North Hollywood sound engineer and Letterboxd user, came to the event after binging Lanthimos’ oeuvre and is looking forward to the director’s latest.—
Mia Galuppo,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Oct. 2025
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Britpop music and binging prestige TV shows.—
Edward McKinnon,
Arkansas Online,
16 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The opening Allegro vacillates between punchy jabs and fluttery gaiety.—
Sheila Regan,
Twin Cities,
13 Sep. 2025
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With the Red Army closing in, such gatherings, expressions of a desperate gaiety, a fin d’une époque efflorescence, weren’t rare.—
James Wood,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Especially watching Curtis reveling playing a teen again.—
Katie Grant,
Parents,
7 Aug. 2025
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“Carousing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carousing. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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