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as in sipped
to swallow in liquid form
an array of colorful and tasty drinks for party guests to imbibe
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Guests onboard sipped champagne from the observation deck as the USCG Polar Star cleared the waters for their onward passage.—
Chrissie McClatchie,
Travel + Leisure,
3 Feb. 2026 -
Guests sipped on Hennessy cocktails named for the nominees, and later enjoyed Sunset Tower’s signature ice cream sundaes.—
Ryma Chikhoune,
Footwear News,
1 Feb. 2026
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Last summer, a Gallup poll found that only fifty-four per cent of Americans drank, the lowest share in nearly a century.—
Alexander Nazaryan,
New Yorker,
29 Jan. 2026
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The report references the case of a detainee at an ICE facility who drank tap water that was contaminated with high levels of chlorine.—
Lautaro Grinspan,
AJC.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Alarms go off, phones come out, coffee is gulped down, and before either partner is fully awake, they’re already headed into separate days.—
Mark Travers,
CNBC,
11 Jan. 2026
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So the 46,000 at the Stadium of Light gulped again.—
Michael Walker,
New York Times,
22 Sep. 2025
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As wonderfully portrayed by Buric, the Wonder Man reboot’s director is every European artiste absorbed into the American studio system cut with a dose of Werner Herzog’s gloom; his mansion could be a museum of Hollywood Regency decadence.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
26 Jan. 2026
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Starship is capital-intensive and when packaged with an already cash-generating business like Starlink, the risk can be absorbed within a single public entity.—
Sasirekha Subramanian,
Forbes.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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“Imbibed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/imbibed. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.
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