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as in fling
a time or instance of carefree fun
went on a spending spree
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as in binge
a bout of prolonged or excessive drinking
after a lifetime of self-destructive sprees, the poet Dylan Thomas died at last of an alcoholic overdose
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Recent Examples of spree
Weaving’s new film, Carolina Caroline, which also stars Kyle Gallner, follows two lovers on a reckless crime spree across the American Southeast.
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Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 29 May 2026
And even though there’s a good chance one or two veteran signings will be recognizable names and upgrades, there’s no need — in our view — to go on a spending spree and clutter your 2027 and 2028 cap in an attempt to win seven games, instead of five games, this season.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 28 May 2026
Tanger has purchased The Town Center at Levis Commons in Perrysburg, Ohio, extending its spree of property acquisitions over the past four years.
—David Moin, Footwear News, 28 May 2026
The Financial Times described a broader Nvidia investment spree of roughly $90 billion across more than 145 companies in 16 months.
—James Broughel, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
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Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 29 May 2026
And even though there’s a good chance one or two veteran signings will be recognizable names and upgrades, there’s no need — in our view — to go on a spending spree and clutter your 2027 and 2028 cap in an attempt to win seven games, instead of five games, this season.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 28 May 2026
Tanger has purchased The Town Center at Levis Commons in Perrysburg, Ohio, extending its spree of property acquisitions over the past four years.
—David Moin, Footwear News, 28 May 2026
The Financial Times described a broader Nvidia investment spree of roughly $90 billion across more than 145 companies in 16 months.
—James Broughel, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spree
Noun
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During a brief period of separation from Blythe, Don had a fling with Dixie, resulting in the birth of his other son, Blue (Hunter McVey).—
Britt Hayes,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 May 2026
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Throughout this dense and always engrossing survey of Lean’s career in film, Thompson threads the vicissitudes of the director’s personal life, spanning six wives and various other relationships and flings.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
27 May 2026
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The boys were on a big Michael Jackson music video binge for a while, which was a tricky situation.—
Marah Eakin,
Vulture,
28 May 2026
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As for Spider-Noir, the series has been dropped as an eight-episode binge on Amazon Prime Video.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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The theme seems like a lark, but the incense holder is actually the most common item that designers submit to Lichen for consideration.—
Anthony Paletta,
Curbed,
23 May 2026
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His movies are goofs, larks, stunts, knowingly arch bizarro-world riffs.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
18 May 2026
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Our purpose was not to get the campus drunk.—
Peter Hessler,
New Yorker,
31 May 2026
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But while following up the usual drunk-and-disorderlies and petty thefts that come with his new territory, Stilwell gets a report of a body found weighed down at the bottom of the harbor.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
27 May 2026
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The European romp does, after all, happen for a reason that is impossible to accept—for viewers as well as for Ava.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
29 May 2026
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Thus Director Park will likely be mulling over the sprawling monster sci-fi Hope, by his countryman Na Hong-Jin, and possibly Léa Mysius’s thriller-romp The Birthday Party, which contains a lot of Park’s trademark black humor.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
23 May 2026
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Lost soon evolved from a standard survival tale into a twisty mind-bender with various mysteries woven throughout its six seasons, from the Others to the Dharma Initiative to the onset of time travel.—
Janey Tracey,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 May 2026
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Outside his ivory tower, the heterosis disease is raging on, turning men whose appetites normally lay only in prostate orgasms, poppers, all-night benders, and chemsex into the kind of people who suddenly have an affection for a church wedding.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
17 May 2026
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If powder-white beaches, turquoise waters, and lush jungles are at the top of your travel itinerary, the following 11 idylls are must-gos, where nature is at its most relaxed and pleasurable.—
Skyli Alvarez,
Condé Nast Traveler,
17 May 2026
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Rescuing utopian idyll from dystopian reality, Koreeda determines that humanity is too fragile to forfeit its defining qualities to a mechanical species; that our only viable function in an artificial tomorrow is as the eternal caretakers of memory and imagination.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
16 May 2026
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But at The Post, the promise of reinvention-or-bust under Will Lewis came with a battered newsroom, a mass exodus of talent, a flood of scandals, lots of internal turmoil — and a business still in real trouble.—
Brian Stelter,
CNN Money,
3 June 2026
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There’s a similar amount of personality within Hadspen House, where a Roman bust wears a necklace of seashells and a snug room is decorated in the colors of the croquet set outside on the lawn.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
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