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ale

[eyl] / eɪl /
NOUN
intoxicating, fermented beverage
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The ginger ale is flatly branded Canada Dry.

From Salon Feb. 15, 2026

I took a seat beneath Singapore’s second-oldest edifice, Caldwell House, built in 1841 for a clerk to the magistrates, and in Anglo spirit, ordered fish and chips with an ale.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 27, 2025

Mr Banks said he did not yet know if the large number of steak and ale, turkey and cranberry, and butternut squash pies were still stored in the back.

From BBC Dec. 3, 2024

Everything made my stomach turn—water, crackers, a hopeful sip of ginger ale; the things you’re supposed to try when you are sick.

From Slate Sep. 15, 2024

There was no ale and only one withered apple left, but water flowed in the river hard by, from which John filled the leather flagons.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli

This was one of the first ales he made in his Overtone brewery in Glasgow.

From BBC Jan. 28, 2026

In their analysis of Belgian ales, the scientists found a clear hierarchy.

From Science Daily Nov. 29, 2025

“We’re having trouble finding Saymo, so we just keep ordering Shastas and ginger ales and hoping that he’ll roll up,” Mulaney said at the January presentation.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 10, 2025

He remembers two politicians who would eat together and regularly put in the same order: "Two working man's portions of your beef and two pewter mugs of your finest ales."

From BBC Sep. 7, 2024

We drank ginger ales and ordered jalapeno poppers and we all danced to a country and western band while Susan’s face beamed on the late news from the TV above the bar.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli




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