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Recent Examples of red-eye
Dern, who is filming a movie in New York, flew in the night before the Oscars and left on the red-eye flight following the ceremony in order to make her 7 a.m. call time Monday morning.
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Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 3 Mar. 2025
During red-eye flights, four-hour delays, freezing plane cabins, or those moments when the plane gets stuffy, these pants have never let me down in any temperature or circumstance.
—Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 2025
The red-eye flights will be seasonal and run through October 15, and will include Premium and Economy classes on a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner.
—Brandon Withrow, Travel + Leisure, 5 Feb. 2025
Tattle, a junior, now with 12 goals, had to travel home to Vancouver for a family matter this week, returning on a red-eye flight, landing at JFK early Friday.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 25 Jan. 2025
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Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 3 Mar. 2025
During red-eye flights, four-hour delays, freezing plane cabins, or those moments when the plane gets stuffy, these pants have never let me down in any temperature or circumstance.
—Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 2025
The red-eye flights will be seasonal and run through October 15, and will include Premium and Economy classes on a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner.
—Brandon Withrow, Travel + Leisure, 5 Feb. 2025
Tattle, a junior, now with 12 goals, had to travel home to Vancouver for a family matter this week, returning on a red-eye flight, landing at JFK early Friday.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 25 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for red-eye
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As alcohol bans lingered, poorer quality substitutes increasingly overwhelmed the black market: bathtub gin, pure grain alcohol and other rotguts.—
David Reamer | Alaska history,
Anchorage Daily News,
23 July 2023
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But mingling with Robert Mitchum and Lana Turner, cocktail in hand, makes even a rotgut movie a top-shelf experience.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
16 May 2023
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It is known for its refreshing notes of honey and lemon, which balance out the immense spice of bathtub gin.—
Bianca Salonga,
Forbes,
23 Nov. 2024
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As alcohol bans lingered, poorer quality substitutes increasingly overwhelmed the black market: bathtub gin, pure grain alcohol and other rotguts.—
David Reamer | Alaska history,
Anchorage Daily News,
23 July 2023
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President Donald Trump threatened Thursday to impose 200% tariffs on alcohol from the European Union in response to the region's retaliatory 50% tariff on U.S. whiskey, further escalating tensions between two longtime trading partners.—
Carlo Angerer,
NBC News,
13 Mar. 2025
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The losses followed Trump's threat to impose hefty tariffs on European wines and alcohol, further escalating trade tensions.—
Hannah Parry,
Newsweek,
13 Mar. 2025
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President Donald Trump’s 25% tariffs on Canada offended leaders there to the point that Ontario fired back by yanking American booze from store shelves.—
Matt Egan,
CNN,
13 Mar. 2025
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Does Alex land in America on the same day that Spencer takes off from Galveston with a truckload of booze for the Italian mafia?—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
9 Mar. 2025
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More than anything, Hemsley and McGowan view the bootleg cookies as proof of unmet demand.—
Simone Melvin,
Forbes,
2 Mar. 2025
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What if three consecutive hours of celebrating ‘S.N.L.’ still isn’t enough for me, a die-hard fan who owns a bootleg recording of Hanks’s first hosting gig in 1985?—
Dave Itzkoff,
New York Times,
16 Feb. 2025
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Slam Dunk At Pier 5 at Bayside Marketplace in Miami, this is a winning mix of Don Q Cristal rum, Triple Sec, fresh lime, orange juice, and mint, topped with a bubbly splash of Starry.—
Aly Walansky,
Forbes,
9 Mar. 2025
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As the restaurant name would suggest, the drinks are equally enticing—try the corn and oil cocktail made from rum, falernum (a liqueur from the Caribbean), and a squeeze of lime.—
Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
7 Mar. 2025
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“Red-eye.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/red-eye. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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