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noun

plural of wassail

as in sprees

a bout of prolonged or excessive drinking woke up with a terrible headache from a wild wassail the night before

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verb

present tense third-person singular of wassail

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

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Noun

Indeed, some even view the market downturn as a natural return to a more balanced field following the high-flying peak TV buying sprees of global streamers.

— Ed Meza, Variety, 11 Sep. 2026
Others went very practical, like Kelly Rowland’s trip to the supermarket, or embraced their inner child, as Donald Glover and Tiffany Haddish did with their sugar sprees.

— Lydia Price, PEOPLE, 10 Aug. 2026

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Nathan Fielder has taken on airline crashes, his fear of intimacy, and a man who drinks his grandson’s pee, but Elizabeth Holmes might be his most formidable opponent subject yet.

— Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2026
For just $5, keep everyone comfortable and drinks cool with the Caterer’s Corner Ice Bucket.

— Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 16 Sep. 2026

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Instead of collectivity, there is a certain kind of animal community, or one that the poems’ speakers—children, old men, drunks, prostitutes—often stand apart from.

— Max Norman, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
For speeders, drunks, reckless drivers and the like.

— Jim Radcliffe, Oc Register, 25 June 2026

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At first, it was thought that over time, governments would want to allow growth to organically whittle down debt-to-income ratios, which is the ideal way to pay down massive peacetime spending and tax cut binges.

— Kenneth S. Rogoff, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2026
Adulting right doesn’t mean giving up your late-night movie binges.

— Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 3 June 2026

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