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as in alcoholics
a person who makes a habit of getting drunk
you can't trust anything that old drunk says
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as in sprees
a bout of prolonged or excessive drinking
after a weeklong drunk he was unable to remember anything
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Noun
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AlAnon is a support group for family and friends of alcoholics/addicts.—
Ramona Sentinel,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
31 Dec. 2025 -
Most notable was that the functional and young adult subtypes represented roughly between 19% to 31% of all alcoholics, while the chronic severe subtype represented only 9%—yet the latter has become the stereotype.—
Sarah Allen Benton,
SELF,
23 Dec. 2025
Noun
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So far, federal prosecutors have convicted 62 people in connection to the scandal, which tops the list of the nation's most costly COVID-era fraud sprees.—
Jonah Kaplan,
CBS News,
18 Dec. 2025
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Despite the designations, the gangs have continued to carry out violent killing sprees, as well as rapes and kidnappings.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
1 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Epic Words With Friends sessions or productive Wikipedia binges clearly fall in the less-problematic camp.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
23 Dec. 2025
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If binges are a risk, a teen and parent can partner and go through the buffet line and then switch plates with each other, so that the parent is keeping the child or adolescent’s portions appropriate.—
Dr. Ellen S. Rome,
Boston Herald,
21 Dec. 2025
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In other words, Cunha’s job is to convince the Americans now running the federal government to give Brown’s motley crew of gender-benders, anti-Semites and filthy-rich legacies a good leaving alone.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
24 Dec. 2025
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In my many decades of dealing with the city and state, this proposal ranks right up there as one of the all-time mind benders.—
Donna Frye,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Aug. 2025
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“Drunks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drunks. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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