teetotal

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Recent Examples of teetotal The teetotal actor launched nonalcoholic beer brand, BERO, in October. Paul Rhodes, Newsweek, 25 Dec. 2024 The Kansas men’s team, for instance, celebrated its national title last year with a water bottle waterfall over Coach Bill Self’s head — a teetotal rendition of the champagne squalls typically seen from championship-winning pro teams. Andrew Keh, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2023 Adolf Hitler, on the other hand, was teetotal. Kyle Smith, National Review, 3 Dec. 2020 The largest study of the most recent data in the UK shows that in 2019, 16-to-25-year-olds were the most likely to be teetotal, with 26% not drinking, compared to the least likely generation (55-to-74-year-olds). Angela Lei, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023 While the pandemic spurred many, like Ms. Cliffe, to alter habits, Britain’s teetotal movement has risen steadily since the turn of the millennium. Shafi Musaddique, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Jan. 2022 According to the latest data from the Australian Institue of Health And Welfare, this makes Jenine one of a growing number of people who are teetotal. Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 10 Jan. 2022 Alcohol is also forbidden, but Lukaku has always been teetotal, so this has not come as much of a problem for him. SI.com, 30 Aug. 2019 The adulation heaped on the deal by those who usually excoriate him reportedly thrilled the president, a teetotal non-smoker whose chief addiction is praise. The Economist, 14 Sep. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for teetotal
Adjective
  • Some have evolved exceedingly specific diets—diets that would put even the most abstemious human to shame.
    Scott Travers, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
  • The solution offered up by some: the sort of abstemious, low-fat, often vegetarian, diets that had been prescribed as lust-control regimens only decades earlier.
    Rachel Hope Cleves / Made by History, TIME, 14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Last year, Canada exported $28 billion worth of cars to the U.S. − 94% of its total annual auto exports.
    Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 1 May 2025
  • The cost has so far been around 16 points in Trump’s polling to put him underwater by double digits—but the total bill is still being tallied.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 30 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Rain could aid firefighting efforts and saturate dry fuels, reducing their risk of igniting in the future.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Apr. 2025
  • According to the New Jersey Forest Fire Service, the fire is expected to grow as dry conditions, winds and low humidity aid its activity.
    Jon Haworth, ABC News, 24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Talk about the low of the low, what utter scumbags.
    Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
  • But sometimes, such as in crosswalks during peak commuting times, that order turns to utter chaos.
    Gayoung Lee, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • First, the federal government’s authority to exclude and deport aliens was an inherent and unqualified feature of American sovereignty.
    Rick Baldoz, The Conversation, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Critics allege Rodney Scott participated in a cover-up and is unqualified to lead the agency.
    Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Spanish canals operated in a temperate climate and were managed by individual farmers who could maintain or increase their water flow.
    Ari Caramanica, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2025
  • In fact, the more temperate weather can be the best time to snuggle up outside, sit by a fire pit, and enjoy a new piece of outdoor furniture.
    Shea Simmons, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Hairston is an absolute burner who ran a 4.28 at the combine and despite his smallish weight, is a very long corner with near 32-inch arms.
    Joe Buscaglia, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
  • But a) there are simply so many other Chappell Roan songs that are better suited for an EDM remix, if such a thing must exist, and b) the remix is an absolute affront to God.
    James Factora, Them., 25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • But perhaps the whole sequence of events tapped into some wider questions around Alcaraz’s game.
    Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2025
  • In the past half decade, whole strata of this intricate New York support system have been smashed.
    Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2025

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“Teetotal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teetotal. Accessed 6 May. 2025.

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