alcoholic
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Senior officials last month described the planned 50% tariffs on Canada as a response to the country’s discrimination against U.S. alcoholic beverages, U.S. dairy products and U.S. motor vehicles.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 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
His order lambastes Canadian provinces for restricting sales of U.S. alcoholic beverages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
A stunningly beautiful small Caribbean island, with a huge Dutch influence but fiercely proud of their own heritage - Curacao has, until now, possibly been most famous for its alcoholic drink of the same name.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
The smell of Charles—damp, alcoholic, sweet with the linden-water he used for shaving—hung heavy in the air.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
Mr Ashworth is recognised with a CBE for his charity work on behalf of the children of alcoholics.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025
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
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
This spasmodic dysphagia includes such widely varying conditions as the “globus hystericus” of neurasthenic women, the spasm of chronic alcoholics, and the affection known as cardiospasm or “hiatal œsophagismus.”
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
