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Young claimed Eminem wanted Carey to portray his alcoholic mother in 8 Mile, despite being just four years younger than her.—
Mitchell Peters,
Billboard,
2 Oct. 2025 -
When Kimberly and her family leave the New Jersey suburbs under dubious circumstances, Kimberly reevaluates her life while dealing with her hypochondriac mother, alcoholic father, scam-artist aunt, her own mortality and her first love.—
Meredith G. White,
AZCentral.com,
1 Oct. 2025
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The film follows a wealthy socialite and a struggling writer who are thrown together at a debauched party.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
7 Aug. 2025
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Doctors deal each day with tales of the worried, sullen, skeptical, dissipated, desperate.—
Michael Stein,
BostonGlobe.com,
4 Nov. 2022
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White’s dissipated dark side was no secret to his friends.—
Nancy Bilyeau,
Town & Country,
1 Feb. 2022
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The extravagant, dissolute life Prince Albert II of Monaco continues to bolster arguments of those who think that hereditary monarchies should not be allowed to exist in the 21st century.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
18 June 2025
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Nick, a prequel to the original, offers us Carraway’s backstory as a soldier in World War I and a wanderer trying to find his way in a dissolute world.—
Danielle Teller,
People.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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From that bibulous beginning, Mr. Epstein became a driving force behind the Library of America, which published its first books in 1979.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
5 Feb. 2022
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But how differently would the Iron Lady have handled Brexit or Jean-Claude Juncker, the EU’s bibulous president?—
Philip Delves Broughton,
WSJ,
16 Nov. 2018
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The belt, which marks the boundary between the inner rocky planets and the outer gas giants, is as old as the solar system itself.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Oct. 2025
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The mighty Mercury is a storied franchise with three championship titles earned during Diana Taurasi’s legendary tenure in The Valley, but recent years have been a bit rocky.—
Devin Robertson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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The memory ends with the image of my friend squatting, crapulous, and dumping her purse on the sidewalk.—
Justin Torres,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Mar. 2021
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Researchers have recently taken a closer look at the role of the immune system in provoking those crapulous mornings.—
Jesse Hawley,
Discover Magazine,
17 Mar. 2021
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The United Kingdom and English flags – the Union Flag and the Cross of St. George respectively – have sprung up across parts of the country in recent weeks, draped on street lamps, strung out across streets and even painted onto intersections.—
Olivia Kemp,
CNN Money,
29 Aug. 2025
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Sunglasses and water bottles were strung out around campus during the chaos, leaving a crowded, makeshift lost and found table.—
Shane Brennan,
USA Today,
23 Aug. 2025
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“Dipsomaniacal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dipsomaniacal. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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