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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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Cleveland baseball can be unhinged revelry, or a biblical terror, and everything in between.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
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Opened in 1966 by Jay Sarno and Stanley Mallin to channel the opulence and revelry of the Roman Empire, the classic property stretched across six towers checked all the boxes.—
Katie Chang,
Forbes.com,
22 Apr. 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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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
Noun
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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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Somewhat surprisingly, the series didn’t feature any true blowouts.—
Sean McIndoe,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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Generally, trainers, and especially that rare subset of Triple Crown trainers, are deathly shy of blowouts six days before a big, tough race like the Derby.—
Guy Martin,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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“Orgy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/orgy. Accessed 6 May. 2025.
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