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Recent Examples of drinker Plus, coffee drinkers’ palates and expectations have been shaped by decades of drinking arabica. Alex Mayyasi, Saveur, 10 Sep. 2025 The controversial new trend of adding ice to beer has spread among young drinkers, prompting mixed reactions. Staff, FOXNews.com, 9 Sep. 2025 Interestingly, the vast majority of matcha drinkers today don’t experience chanoyu, even as matcha purveyors borrow from the practice’s aesthetics. Rebecca Corbett, The Conversation, 3 Sep. 2025 Their findings, published in Physics of Fluids, suggest that in the future, drinkers may be able to admire a perfectly foamy head for longer before enjoying their first sip. Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 31 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for drinker
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Noun
  • Staples, played in the movie by Emily Blunt, was a recovering alcoholic, and the couple’s fraught journeys with sobriety led to feelings of abandonment and bitterness.
    Rory Doherty, Time, 5 Sep. 2025
  • AlAnon is a support group for family and friends of alcoholics/addicts.
    Ramona Sentinel, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Charlie Sheen once piloted a jet drunk.
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Stray Bullets • In this week’s post-credits scene, Adrian removes the pants of the drunk, sleeping John Economos and plants a tender kiss on his forehead.
    Scott Meslow, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025

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“Drinker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drinker. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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