cocktail

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Allergy expert Professor Stephen Till, from Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals in London, recommends "a cocktail approach", which means taking:

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026

Customers wield big Messi head cutouts, and the bar offers a cocktail dubbed the Messi Mule.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

“Usually for that caliber of a cocktail, you need to drive into Minneapolis or St. Paul.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

If an old girlfriend buys you a set of cocktail glasses from a flea market, those glasses will always evoke thoughts of that person.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

Then he slowly pours his cocktail on the ground.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman