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Recent Examples of speakeasy
There's been a chef shake-up at one Providence restaurant and there's a new chef-in-residence at a speakeasy in the city.
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Gail Ciampa, The Providence Journal, 14 Jan. 2026
Also in Highland Park is Blind Barber, a speakeasy that hosts Homo Happy Hour on Thursdays.
—Kailyn Brown, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2026
Like its speakeasy predecessor, Ghost Baby, Prim encourages visitors to be present in our otherwise digital world.
—Bebe Hodges, Cincinnati Enquirer, 9 Jan. 2026
The working farm doubles as a luxurious inn with suites, cottages, and cozy rooms, plus a spa, restaurant, speakeasy, lake, and trails.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 8 Jan. 2026
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Gail Ciampa, The Providence Journal, 14 Jan. 2026
Also in Highland Park is Blind Barber, a speakeasy that hosts Homo Happy Hour on Thursdays.
—Kailyn Brown, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2026
Like its speakeasy predecessor, Ghost Baby, Prim encourages visitors to be present in our otherwise digital world.
—Bebe Hodges, Cincinnati Enquirer, 9 Jan. 2026
The working farm doubles as a luxurious inn with suites, cottages, and cozy rooms, plus a spa, restaurant, speakeasy, lake, and trails.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 8 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for speakeasy
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The carnival’s indoor Thursday events, including a Klondike Kate cabaret night and a Winter Carnival Night at the Minnesota Wild game, will proceed as normal.—
Jared Kaufman,
Twin Cities,
22 Jan. 2026
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Le Mindu’s last showing during couture week was for the fall-winter 2015-2016 collection at the Crazy Horse Paris cabaret venue in July 2015.—
Jennifer Weil,
Footwear News,
16 Jan. 2026
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The brothers met victims at nightclubs, parties and on dating apps, and recruited others for trips to ritzy locales, paying for their flights and lodging at high-end hotels or luxe vacation rentals before drugging and raping them, prosecutors said.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
26 Jan. 2026
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In fact, Summers would have been much better off falling in love with Dietrich’s nightclub chanteuse.—
Cory Franklin,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Jan. 2026
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Michelob Ultra Roadhouse The roadhouse is on Simmons Banks Plaza, which surrounds Dickies Arena.—
Brayden Garcia
January 8,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
8 Jan. 2026
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Guests can choose one entrée from the following selection, each served with sides such as fries, roadhouse rice, green beans, corn and mashed potatoes.—
Cheryl V. Jackson,
IndyStar,
10 Nov. 2025
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For lovers of lively Parisian bistros, chef Ludo Lefebvre opened his first Petit Trois restaurant outside Los Angeles in the Mollie Hotel, serving classics like Burgundy escargots, steak frites, and French onion soup.—
Amy Tara Koch,
Robb Report,
29 Jan. 2026
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Britton has been a restaurateur for 15 years as the owner of a wine bistro and restaurant called The Funky Door in Lubbock.—
Sarah Blaskovich,
Dallas Morning News,
27 Jan. 2026
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Carrying news, satire and story into places where expensive books had seldom reached, they were sold for pennies, tacked to alehouse walls and sung aloud for the illiterate.—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
8 Nov. 2025
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On a video call Finger demonstrated a few use cases, including a woman sitting in a modern Los Angeles garage that became a woman riding a horse in an old Western town, or two men sitting at a backyard table who were suddenly in a Medieval alehouse.—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
10 July 2025
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The combatants rolled into the saloon with neither getting the upper hand until Fossett managed to pull his pistol and put four shots into the unarmed Carver.—
Richard Selcer,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
24 Jan. 2026
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Matt Ryan's John Constantine also entered the last chance saloon after the cancellation of his solo series, but his portrayal of the Hellblazer – more akin to his comic book counterpart than Keanu Reeves' version – lived on longer because of his magical time as part of the Legends.—
Sergio Pereira,
Space.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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For me, moving from Portland’s craft beer scene to a brewpub in Singapore, and then to Dublin at Teeling, challenged me to think differently about ingredients, fermentation, and aging.—
Noel Burgess,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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The Sunnyvale brewpub is located on Oakmead Parkway near Highway 101.—
Linda Zavoral,
Mercury News,
22 Jan. 2026
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Brendan Behan is often reductively associated with Dublin pub culture and literary banter.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Feb. 2026
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Eventually, the masses began to disassemble and head back to the pub on the river to celebrate.—
Theo Lloyd-Hughes,
New York Times,
1 Feb. 2026
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“Speakeasy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/speakeasy. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.
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