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wassailing

verb

present participle of wassail

as in drinking

to take part in drunken revelry the knights feasted and wassailed for three days after the battlefield victory

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People were using fans and drinking lots of water at this year's event.

— Andrea Nakano, CBS News, 10 Sep. 2026
Only about 3% of Earth’s total water is freshwater that is usable for drinking.

— Kristin Tsumura Tsai, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026

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Three sitting rooms are complemented by a further three members’ social spaces for carousing in, concealed behind a subtle screen (here, DJs including Goldierocks make appearances, and mobile snaps are banned; staff politely place a sticker over mobile camera lenses).

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 May 2026
The team were meek in defeat, but after a weekend carousing and communing in central London, Newcastle fans arrived at Wembley with a collective hangover.

— George Caulkin, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2026

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The shows also serve to eat up time during dayside hours when consumers may not be interested in binging a drama series or original movie.

— Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 1 Sep. 2026
This is someone’s Super Bowl, if the Super Bowl was about binging 15 pounds of cased beef tubes.

— Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 4 July 2026

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Right in the middle of cheering, reveling masses was MARTA — a connective system of veins that efficiently moved the happy throngs.

— Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 2 Aug. 2026
Mary Murphy, a young reporter from Queens, had been at Shea that night, reveling with her sisters in the upper loge section along the first-base line.

— Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 31 July 2026

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