wassailed

Definition of wassailednext
past tense of wassail
as in roistered
to take part in drunken revelry the knights feasted and wassailed for three days after the battlefield victory

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  • In the study, people who drank between two and three daily cups of coffee or one or two cups of tea had lower subjective cognitive decline and performed better on cognitive tests.
    Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 15 May 2026
  • This reductive view of the world—women things bad, men things good—is the mirror image of the worst excesses of 2010s Tumblr feminism, when introverted teenage girls posted hashtags like #KillAllMen and drank from mugs that read MALE TEARS.
    Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 14 May 2026
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  • While hundreds reveled at Thursday night’s all-out bash for The Pierre hotel’s 95th anniversary, some of the building’s tenants in the floors above haven’t been feeling quite as celebratory.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 21 Nov. 2025
  • In the party scene, though, there would be plenty of swooping camera movements as the guests revelled.
    Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
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  • Some were built to be binged, engineered for the streaming era when a full season premiered at once, and some were designed as limited series.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Paramount+ has historically seen higher churn but UFC fans should make for stickier subscribers—traditional sports leagues have off-seasons and TV shows can be quickly binged, but the UFC’s programming is ongoing.
    Andrew Root, Sportico.com, 27 Feb. 2026
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“Wassailed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wassailed. Accessed 18 May. 2026.

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