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as in reveller
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as in orgy
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Recent Examples of bacchanal
Image As sunlight dimmed, the air grew heavy, the bacchanal came to an end.
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Danielle Pergament Nick Ballón, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
As Dorian’s life becomes an incessant bacchanal, Snook spends much of her time mugging and narrating directly into a smartphone screen, which is seamlessly projected onto a wall behind her.
—Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 28 Mar. 2025
In the bacchanal of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ triumph last October, Shohei Ohtani approached Andrew Friedman.
—Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
Far from the usual Sin City bacchanal, this soirée was a synergy of philanthropy and high-wattage performers, all in the service of bringing safe water to the world's most vulnerable communities.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 25 Mar. 2025
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Danielle Pergament Nick Ballón, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
As Dorian’s life becomes an incessant bacchanal, Snook spends much of her time mugging and narrating directly into a smartphone screen, which is seamlessly projected onto a wall behind her.
—Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 28 Mar. 2025
In the bacchanal of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ triumph last October, Shohei Ohtani approached Andrew Friedman.
—Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
Far from the usual Sin City bacchanal, this soirée was a synergy of philanthropy and high-wattage performers, all in the service of bringing safe water to the world's most vulnerable communities.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 25 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bacchanal
Noun
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What ensued was an orgy of finger-pointing and budget slashing.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
21 Apr. 2025
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There are sections on orgies and masturbation and voyeurism and how to behave in a porno theater.—
Dwight Garner,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Berman flashes back through the lavish bacchanalia of Alex’s last months, through the eyes of a podcaster trying to unravel the mystery of his death, to reveal the knotty story behind the apparent suicide.—
Calum Marsh,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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Berman flashes back through the lavish bacchanalia of Alex’s last months, through the eyes of a podcaster trying to unravel the mystery of his death, to reveal the knotty story behind the apparent suicide.—
Calum Marsh,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
Noun
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But his preternatural talent attracts more than local revelers; vampires descend on the party, culminating in a bloody fight for freedom.—
Angelique Jackson,
Variety,
22 Apr. 2025
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Photos and videos from the period show famous revelers clearly giddy with their own hipness.—
USA Today,
USA Today,
21 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Since then, thousands of party animals have flocked to Lake Boca Raton's shoulder-length deep waters.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
27 Apr. 2025
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Being a yapper and a party animal isn’t your usual, but right now is the time to loosen up and enjoy the magic of interconnectedness.—
Nina Kahn,
StyleCaster,
24 Mar. 2025
Noun
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On multiple occasions, Combs attended the exclusive annual gala, benefitting the museum's Costume Institute.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
3 May 2025
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Not surprisingly, Donald Trump’s May 1 executive order to cut federal funding for PBS and NPR stations was a prime topic of conversation at the annual gala in New York April 28 of the WNET group.—
Jane Levere,
Forbes.com,
3 May 2025
Noun
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Hamilton SantaCon & 1K Fun Run A 1K fun run at Marcum Park kicks off Hamilton's second annual SantaCon, where merrymakers dress as the jolly ole elf and frolic throughout the city's Dora district, spreading holiday cheer, joy and perhaps ending up with a lump of coal in the stocking.—
Luann Gibbs,
The Enquirer,
6 Dec. 2024
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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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Amy Poehler, Seth Meyers, Maya Rudolph, Fred Armisen, Rachel Dratch, and Chris Parnell play the other partygoers.—
Lauren Huff,
EW.com,
2 May 2025
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In California, individuals must possess a permit to touch or handle owls, so the owl could not be pet by the partygoers, but the group still enjoyed looking at and learning about the wide-eyed bird.—
Ashlyn Robinette,
People.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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“Bacchanal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bacchanal. Accessed 13 May. 2025.
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