saturnalia

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for saturnalia
Noun
  • Sources told the author that more than 40 women attended the orgy.
    StyleCaster Editors, StyleCaster, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The orgy comments and Zelenskyy criticism seemed to have kicked off a campaign against Cawthorn within the GOP to ensure he wasn’t reelected.
    Danielle Battaglia, Charlotte Observer, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This gastro bacchanalia might look unchanged from a few decades ago, with 90-pound butter sculptures and century-old barns, towering carnival rides, and extravagant displays of agriculture.
    Jess Eng, Bon Appetit Magazine, 17 Sep. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Suffice it to say, with credentials such as this, a charivari of fashion-week regulars, media, film and musical grandees and not a few New York and London tatterdemalions showed for the September 12 bacchanal on Church Street.
    Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Eyes Wide Shut, with Hedda and her new husband throwing a bacchanal of a party in a manor house.
    Ben Jureidini, Them., 22 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • My regular weekly meeting of lifers became a celebration of my release.
    Joe Garcia, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2025
  • While Park Circus has long worked with the Lumière Film Festival – an eight-day celebration of cinema old and new – and its MIFF, the world’s biggest market dedicated to heritage film, this edition marks the first time Park Circus is officially partnering with the market.
    Lise Pedersen, Variety, 12 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The gala benefits orphaned and abandoned children in Baja, Mexico, and will include champagne, cocktails, silent and live auctions, entertainment, dinner and dancing.
    La Jolla Light, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Featuring high-profile guests like Coco Jones, the annual DKMS gala is a fundraising event hosted by the international nonprofit organization with a mission to fight blood cancer.
    Julia Teti, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2025
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“Saturnalia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/saturnalia. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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