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Recent Examples of orgy
Nobody is drugged and no crazy orgy takes place.
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Erik Kain, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
Recent claims, in the conservative press, of a twelve-person orgy among officials at a Veterans Affairs medical center in Tennessee, offer salacious elaboration on this theme of erotic pathology, casting the bureaucrat in the bedroom as at once perverse and virtuosic.
—Charlie Tyson, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2025
The athletes will be congratulating each other — and often even themselves — in an orgy of antics, some qualifying as in your face and over the top.
—Bob Brody, New York Daily News, 9 Feb. 2025
Hastreiter’s apartment is a kind of aesthetic orgy.
—Ariel Levy, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
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Erik Kain, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
Recent claims, in the conservative press, of a twelve-person orgy among officials at a Veterans Affairs medical center in Tennessee, offer salacious elaboration on this theme of erotic pathology, casting the bureaucrat in the bedroom as at once perverse and virtuosic.
—Charlie Tyson, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2025
The athletes will be congratulating each other — and often even themselves — in an orgy of antics, some qualifying as in your face and over the top.
—Bob Brody, New York Daily News, 9 Feb. 2025
Hastreiter’s apartment is a kind of aesthetic orgy.
—Ariel Levy, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for orgy
Noun
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That night, the royal sisters went out to join the revelry across the city, a scene reimagined in season 6 of The Crown on Netflix.—
Janine Henni,
People.com,
9 May 2025
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But the true horror in the film is the economics of Jim Crow, which drives every event in the plot, including the vampire bloodbath that ultimately cuts the musical revelry—and the twins’ dreams—short.—
Adam Serwer,
The Atlantic,
2 May 2025
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The only sober attendees are a father (Sergi López) and his young son (Bruno Núñez) who are hoping to find the boy’s sister, a bohemian swept up in the relentless rhythm of this road-tripping bacchanalia.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
18 May 2025
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Berman flashes back through the lavish bacchanalia of Alex’s last months, through the eyes of a podcaster trying to unravel the mystery of his death, to reveal the knotty story behind the apparent suicide.—
Calum Marsh,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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During spring bloom, an upsurge in photosynthesizing algae and other microbes kick-starts the Arctic ecosystem, fueling a yearly revel, with tiny crustaceans, fish, seals, birds, polar bears, whales, and more.—
Asher Elbein,
WIRED,
2 Mar. 2025
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During spring bloom, an upsurge in photosynthesizing algae and other microbes kick-starts the Arctic ecosystem, fueling a yearly revel, with tiny crustaceans, fish, seals, birds, polar bears, whales and more.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
29 Jan. 2025
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Combine your new color and a fresh blowout, and your hairstyle will look better than ever.—
Lisa DeSantis,
Glamour,
22 May 2025
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The removable cover is waterproof and machine-washable—a big plus for any late-night diaper blowouts.—
Pamela Brill,
Parents,
22 May 2025
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“Orgy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/orgy. Accessed 27 May. 2025.
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