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alcoholic

[al-kuh-haw-lik, -hol-ik] / ˌæl kəˈhɔ lɪk, -ˈhɒl ɪk /




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Statistics Jersey said increases in the cost of household services, alcoholic drinks and food made the most notable contributions to annual rate of inflation.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Also, think about whether you want to cover alcoholic drinks.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026

She is also leaning in to different types of white wines that are popular with younger Chinese drinkers, and is making alcoholic drinks from traditional Chinese fruit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Santa Monica put screens on every block of the Third Street Promenade for World Cup watch parties where patrons were allowed to carry alcoholic beverages within a specific area of the open-air mall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

The Volstead Act, which banned the manufacture, sale, and transfer of alcoholic beverages, was now the law of the land.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

Juliette Lewis has played murderers, drifters, alcoholics, punk rockers, Reiki healers and roller-derby captains.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2025

Children of alcoholics are most often on high alert trying to anticipate other people’s feelings, so they can try to head off problems or incidents before they become overwhelming.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2022

It’s not just for recovering alcoholics or nondrinkers.

From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2022

The decision not to entirely fictionalise the island was deliberate: it isn’t renamed, and there is a reference to its former owner, Frederick Charrington, a 19th-century social reformer who created a community for recovering alcoholics.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 7, 2020

When I joined the ranks of temperance workers in 1874, a thought so adventurous as that alcoholics in relation to medicine were a curse and not a blessing had never lodged within my cranium.

From Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Martha Meir Allen


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