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Recent Examples of bacchanal
But, in a stroke of political savvy, Harrison leaned into the image, campaigning from town to town in a kind of roving bacchanal.
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Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
Los Angeles is a main character—a despoiled paradise where celebrities mistake their privilege for immortality, and abandon responsibility when the inevitable consequences of their long-term bacchanal kick in.
—Elizabeth Nelson, The Atlantic, 31 July 2024
This resurgent interest in bacchanals — beer-cchanals? — is not limited to San Diego County.
—Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2024
Friendship is the electronic music party cruise from Gary Richards, the longtime DJ and party promoter who launched the sailing bacchanal in 2018 and also founded HARD events.
—Katie Bain, Billboard, 29 Jan. 2024
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Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
Los Angeles is a main character—a despoiled paradise where celebrities mistake their privilege for immortality, and abandon responsibility when the inevitable consequences of their long-term bacchanal kick in.
—Elizabeth Nelson, The Atlantic, 31 July 2024
This resurgent interest in bacchanals — beer-cchanals? — is not limited to San Diego County.
—Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2024
Friendship is the electronic music party cruise from Gary Richards, the longtime DJ and party promoter who launched the sailing bacchanal in 2018 and also founded HARD events.
—Katie Bain, Billboard, 29 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bacchanal
Noun
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Small figures enjoying a lesbian orgy are embroidered onto the canvas, as if to remind viewers that when the outside world is hell, the body can offer private pleasure.—
Emily Watlington,
ARTnews.com,
28 Nov. 2024
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The expectation was for an orgy of merchandise and fistfights over whatever happened to be left on the shelves.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
The Athletic,
1 Aug. 2024
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Some instead clamored for New Orleans's own Lil Wayne, a living embodiment of the raucous creativity and bacchanalia of the city hosting Super Bowl LIX.—
Andrew R. Chow,
TIME,
10 Feb. 2025
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The film won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1960 and stars one of Fellini’s muses, Marcello Mastroianni, as a tabloid journalist on a week-long bacchanalia through the ancient, yet modern city in search of love and happiness.—
Harrison Richlin,
IndieWire,
7 Dec. 2024
Noun
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The annual Lunar New Year Lion Dance Parade, led each year by the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association of New England (CCBA), kicked off at 11 a.m. Sunday morning with live performances, pounding drums and crowds of revelers braving the cold.—
Grace Zokovitch,
Boston Herald,
10 Feb. 2025
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In the wild days of the late 1980s and 1990s, Brantley says, bars along Bourbon Street would pay strippers to show off their goods on the long gallery balconies lining the road, and host ceremonial light pole-greasings to stop revelers climbing them.—
Jack Crosbie,
Rolling Stone,
8 Feb. 2025
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The black hole at the heart of our galaxy is a real party animal, endlessly blowing cosmic bubbles.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
18 Feb. 2025
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Ronaldinho worked hard to justifiably earn a reputation as a party animal throughout his career.—
The Athletic Staff,
The Athletic,
30 Dec. 2024
Noun
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The sound editors group invited firefighters to attend the gala as special guests with the audience honoring them for their heroic efforts during the devastating Los Angeles wildfires.—
Erik Pedersen,
Deadline,
23 Feb. 2025
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Pageant’s annual gala, set for April 19, is the best show in town; the regular season opens on March 6.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
17 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The man in charge of this band of merrymakers is Nigel Petersen — a thinly disguised Lorne Michaels — an inscrutable star-maker whose whims have shaped late-night comedy since the early 1980s.—
Ron Charles,
Washington Post,
28 Mar. 2023
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According to the study, led by Shevach Friedler and published in Fertility and Sterility, a medical merrymaker visited the fertility clinic regularly for a year.—
Patrick Morgan,
Discover Magazine,
14 Jan. 2011
Noun
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Amidst a sea of partygoers in wild outfits galore, Zoë Kravitz reminded us that sometimes breaking the rules can be a quiet act.—
Hannah Jackson,
Vogue,
14 Feb. 2025
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Inside, partygoers like Nicole Richie, Lila Moss, and Precious Lee could check out the new shades IRL and get a first look at another commemorative launch—Make Me Blush Bold Blush Powder, available in baby pinks, plums, berries, and peaches equally as yummy as the gloss sticks.—
Kiana Murden,
Vogue,
7 Feb. 2025
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“Bacchanal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bacchanal. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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