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Recent Examples of wino
To promote their inventory, the staff hosts a free wine tasting, which is paired up with all sorts of cheeses, every Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. On Valentine’s Day, winos will be drinking pink bubbles as the store will be popping open everything from champagne to Cava.
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Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
Feed your wino friend's sense of curiosity with the most popular wine club in the land.
—Jasmine Gomez, Women's Health, 11 Aug. 2023
Some started at The Sweet Factory, then spent the afternoon dipping a hand into the candy bag like a wino with a bottle.
—Rich Cohen, wsj.com, 29 Apr. 2023
These were given suitably stupid names, like selectrons, sneutrinos, squarks, photinos, and my personal (least) favorite, the wino boson.
—Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 27 Jan. 2023
If your uncle is a wino, this is the membership service to set him up with.
—Mark Stock, Men's Health, 15 Dec. 2022
During a 1968 vote-fraud investigation with the Chicago Daily News, Recktenwald went undercover as a Skid Row wino and registered to vote at a succession of flophouses over several weeks.
—Bob Goldsborough, chicagotribune.com, 23 Aug. 2021
The business also hosts events, including wine tastings and wino bingo.
—Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2020
Street punks and winos from the Mission began to show up.
—Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 29 Nov. 2019
Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
Feed your wino friend's sense of curiosity with the most popular wine club in the land.
—Jasmine Gomez, Women's Health, 11 Aug. 2023
Some started at The Sweet Factory, then spent the afternoon dipping a hand into the candy bag like a wino with a bottle.
—Rich Cohen, wsj.com, 29 Apr. 2023
These were given suitably stupid names, like selectrons, sneutrinos, squarks, photinos, and my personal (least) favorite, the wino boson.
—Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 27 Jan. 2023
If your uncle is a wino, this is the membership service to set him up with.
—Mark Stock, Men's Health, 15 Dec. 2022
During a 1968 vote-fraud investigation with the Chicago Daily News, Recktenwald went undercover as a Skid Row wino and registered to vote at a succession of flophouses over several weeks.
—Bob Goldsborough, chicagotribune.com, 23 Aug. 2021
The business also hosts events, including wine tastings and wino bingo.
—Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2020
Street punks and winos from the Mission began to show up.
—Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 29 Nov. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wino
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His father was an alcoholic and had temper issues that led him to fire 200 bullet rounds into their home one night, as Knight and his brothers hid in the house.Shirsho Dasgupta, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
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Brittany Luse is joined by writer and journalist Ana Marie Cox to get into how people are disentangling alcohol from their lives, and the lessons she's learned as a recovering alcoholic.Veralyn Williams, NPR, 6 Jan. 2025
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And then there was the one about him as a bad steward of money raised by the powerful Koch network, a sexist bully, and a drunkard on the job who got canned.Philip Elliott, TIME, 4 Dec. 2024
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First, there was the chest-down, sort of squaring-up motion that drunkards do to bouncers, to be followed by a strike which could not even be conceived of in drunken stupors.Simon Johnson, The Athletic, 30 June 2024
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About 90% of The Zero Proof's shoppers are alcohol drinkers looking for healthier beverages, Goldsmith said.Arriana McLymore, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2025
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One issue that is rarely mentioned involves the potential harsh blowback that heavy drinkers might experience when suddenly skipping alcohol for a full month.Lance Eliot, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
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One of American drama's most intriguing case studies, Hickey is the hardware salesman who returns to his old tawdry haunt not on one of his periodic benders but on a mission to reform the resident inebriates of their belief in a better tomorrow.Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 10 May 2018
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The group proposed extending the winter shelter through May, boosting treatment for serial inebriates and reporting all homeless incidents and issues to a single coordinator.Jeff McDonald, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 Oct. 2017
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In this romantic wish list of components for the perfect pub, Orwell’s fantasy boozer is frequented by regulars who sit in the same chair night after night, employs chirpy, liver-sausage-sandwich-slinging barmaids, and serves its ale in strawberry-pink china mugs.Will Noble, CNN, 23 Nov. 2024
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Trending on Billboard Across two stages and alongside fairground attractions, an art exhibition and a nod to the beloved Camden boozer The Hawley Arms, Bludfest is an all-encompassing proposition.Thomas Smith, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
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First, undermining confidence in or even delaying updates to Windows 11 PCs, and perhaps even more acutely, giving Windows 10 users more reasons sot keep holding out.Zak Doffman, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
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Thrilling game sequences, a terrific ensemble cast led by Geena Davis, Lori Petty and Madonna, plus an all-timer performance from Tom Hanks as their hapless sot of a manager.Ben Flanagan | bflanagan@al.com, al, 8 Apr. 2023
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Taste traditional home cooking If fish is for Friday, the traditional Bajan dish of pudding and souse is the staple of Saturday.Patrick Scott, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
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The meat in souse is first tenderized through boiling and then marinated in lime, cucumbers, peppers and seasonings to pickled perfection.Essence, Essence, 25 Nov. 2024
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Post Malone, pop’s premier sad-sack boozehound, has returned with F-1 Trillion, his first long-form foray into pure country music.Shaad D’Souza, Pitchfork, 16 Aug. 2024
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Post Malone, pop’s premier sad sack boozehound, makes his first long-form foray into pure country music.Shaad D’Souza, Pitchfork, 16 Aug. 2024
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“Wino.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wino. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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