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Recent Examples of orgy
Upon arriving at Dalí's studio, Cher realized that an orgy had just taken place.
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Marina Watts, People.com, 26 Nov. 2024
There, Manson led sermons, orchestrated orgies and fostered a cult-like environment.
—Matt Robison, Newsweek, 19 Nov. 2024
In a June 10 article about the anti-Israel vandalism of the U.S. Consulate in Sydney, the Associated Press initially whitewashed a menacing symbol used to denote support for Hamas since the terror organization’s Oct. 7 orgy of murder, rape and countless other atrocities.
—Tamar Sternthal, Sun Sentinel, 15 June 2024
Yet the mass of people chooses lives of quiet or flamboyant desperation hoping to find meaning in orgies of hormonal gratifications.
—Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 1 Dec. 2024
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Marina Watts, People.com, 26 Nov. 2024
There, Manson led sermons, orchestrated orgies and fostered a cult-like environment.
—Matt Robison, Newsweek, 19 Nov. 2024
In a June 10 article about the anti-Israel vandalism of the U.S. Consulate in Sydney, the Associated Press initially whitewashed a menacing symbol used to denote support for Hamas since the terror organization’s Oct. 7 orgy of murder, rape and countless other atrocities.
—Tamar Sternthal, Sun Sentinel, 15 June 2024
Yet the mass of people chooses lives of quiet or flamboyant desperation hoping to find meaning in orgies of hormonal gratifications.
—Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 1 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for orgy
Noun
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Mardi Gras is truly a global phenomenon and every celebration is different, even if they are all tied to the liturgical calendar and the same principal of wild revelry.—
Jenny Adams,
AFAR Media,
23 Jan. 2025
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When this night of revelry abruptly ends, with a slightly intoxicated Nati sneaking off into the night, only to be sideswiped by a car while crossing the road, the incredible vacuum left by his death is immediately felt.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
20 Jan. 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
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Branded events at Cannes, Martha’s Vineyard and Sundance have replaced Puff’s bacchanalias, and Michael Rubin’s annual Hamptons White Party is now the place to see and be seen.—
Amy DuBois Barnett,
The Hollywood Reporter,
4 Oct. 2024
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Our revels are over when she’s called back on set in Nashville to continue filming Scarpetta, the Amazon TV adaptation of Patricia Cornwall’s bestselling novels about crime-solving forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta, with Jamie Lee Curtis playing her sister and Ariana DeBose as her niece.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
5 Dec. 2024
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Salem's focus on confronting a difficult history, teamed with clever marketing and the explosion of the holiday into a mainstream cultural force, has made Salem the country's go-to spot for Halloween revels.—
Mike Deehan,
Axios,
28 Oct. 2024
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With the Heat featured on TNT on Thursday night (albeit somewhat briefly, until their blowout loss to the Milwaukee Bucks was shifted to truTV), Barkley took advantage of the opportunity to again inject himself into the drama between Butler and Heat President Pat Riley.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
24 Jan. 2025
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After that early Heat surge, the Bucks promptly unleashed a 39-16 rampage and Miami never really recovered, ending on the wrong side of a blowout loss for the second time in a week, dropping below .500 (at 21-22) and finishing the night ninth in the East.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
24 Jan. 2025
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“Orgy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/orgy. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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