as in alcohol
a distilled beverage that can make a person drunk
stocking up on her in-laws' favorite inebriants for the holidays
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Despite the teetotaling decision, stacks of beer, including Michelob Ultra, Kona Big Wave, Bud Light and Budweiser sat behind the register as workers informed attendees that alcohol would be sold beginning Thursday.
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This is essentially the Philippines’ lambanog, tuba distilled, with a high alcohol proof and a bite like rustic sugarcane alcohol.
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The investigation is ongoing, and details where and how the liquor was manufactured have not been released.
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On their way to Foxborough for an opening match against Haiti, Scottish fans reportedly bought up all the beer—including Tennent's Lager, a popular beer in Scotland—at local bars and liquor stores.
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The bagpipes, the booze, the kilts!
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The boat was later found to contain 61 empty and partially empty booze bottles and cans, after FWC officers pulled the boat from the bay a day after the crash.
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For drinks, lean on pre-batched cocktails, a help-yourself bar, freezer-door cocktails or wine.
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Sandlot Social softly opened this week, offering cheap drinks, beer pong, putt-putt and — perhaps most notably — 10 baseball simulators.
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The intoxicant of being in proximity to a winner has unified most of the five boroughs to Reggie Jackson in 1977 and Mark Messier in 1994 levels.
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But what’s new is the dizzying scale and variety of synthetic intoxicants and their increasing dominance of the drug market.
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“Inebriant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inebriant. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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