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Recent Examples of birl
There was sea salt in the air, and sleepless seagulls were birling in the darkness overhead.
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Douglas Stuart, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2020
Another, unable to reach dry land, dug his spiked boots into a slippery timber and birled downriver.
—Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2019
In some parts of the United States, birling contests are annual events.
—Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2019
Douglas Stuart, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2020
Another, unable to reach dry land, dug his spiked boots into a slippery timber and birled downriver.
—Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2019
In some parts of the United States, birling contests are annual events.
—Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for birl
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For example, the Mayo Clinic still recommends drinking cranberry juice as a way to prevent UTIs, while the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases doesn’t.—
Korin Miller,
SELF,
17 Mar. 2025
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Peterson has almost nothing in common with, say, Dave Portnoy, another mascot of the bro-sphere, who mostly just wants to be left alone to eat pizza and drink beer by the pool.—
Andrew Marantz,
The New Yorker,
17 Mar. 2025
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Its governor, Edward Jackson, was a close friend of the the Indiana Klan leader, D. C. Stephenson, a pudgy man with a reputation for high living, carousing, and trouble with the law.—
Tara McAndrew,
JSTOR Daily,
25 Jan. 2017
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From there, a series of scenes — a late-night house party full of adults drinking and carousing, a cascade of tinsel falling off a Christmas tree, a playground fail — replicate a you-are-there feeling as a preadolescent named Elwood Curtis navigates the agonies and ecstasies of boyhood.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
12 Dec. 2024
Verb
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Key speeches are faithfully delivered to an audience of two, not thousands; a scene of soldiers destructively revelling on a bridge is given a different spirit by ironic, out-of-time horseplay.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
8 Feb. 2025
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Another interesting finding from the clinical trial that was more recently reveled is the reduction of visceral fat.—
Yola Robert,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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Her love of science came from watching PBS shows as a kid with her mom and spending too much time binging Doctor Who. fossils Neanderthals evolution anthropology paleontology 1 free article left Want More?—
Monica Cull,
Discover Magazine,
13 Mar. 2025
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By the time the ten episodes of the show—which, unlike Love Is Blind, were released all at once, so the show could be binged in its entirety—are over, there’s been one threesome, two very messy breakups, and one engagement.—
Lissete Lanuza Sáenz,
StyleCaster,
12 Mar. 2025
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Image Image In the village of Midsomer Norton, about 50 miles away, 100 people or so turned out for a community event to wassail three small apple trees in the local park.—
Stephen Castle,
New York Times,
13 Feb. 2025
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This drink was often used as part of wassailing in England.—
BHG Test Kitchen,
Better Homes & Gardens,
1 June 2023
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“Birl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/birl. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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