as in mountain dews
illegally produced liquor
college students secretly mixing up a batch of white lightning in the school lab
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Liquid chalk markers use various alcohols to create transferable liquid chalk that dries entirely on the board.—
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Sugar alcohols are derivatives of sugar that have been chemically changed.—
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22 Oct. 2025
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To really understand the breadth of Dylan’s work, fans had to dive into the bootlegs.—
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Rolling Stone,
27 Oct. 2025
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And that means passing up scramble lanes on bootlegs and dirting the ball in the face of free rushers.—
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New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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“White lightnings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/white%20lightnings. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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