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binge

[binj] / bɪndʒ /


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After exhausting their own mighty cash flows, hyperscalers have gone on a borrowing binge that’s starting to worry credit investors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

But if you do binge the series first, watching it will be like “getting 24 consecutive deliveries of perfectly baked Parisian pastry.”

From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2026

Viewers will have plenty to cozy up to, with a slew of series dropping around holidays — a perfect time to binge your new favorite watch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

As mentioned last month, it’s dark, smart and compelling, and consistently takes a familiar plot setup into unexpected territory; it’s worth a binge.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

It was a tradition in our house to binge on bad disaster movies instead of football or parades.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

A colony of macaques that gorge on snacks offered by tourists in the British territory of Gibraltar swallow soil to recover from their junk food binges, a study has found.

From Barron's ● May 22, 2026

In the years leading up to the pandemic, low interest rates fueled borrowing binges across higher education to build snazzy academic buildings and dorms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

Each is an easy joy, designed for comfort binges and the kind of repeat consumption some of us crave during cozy season.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2024

In the depths of their internet binges, all three were looking for help, but GPs, mental health services, courses on stress and internet research on addiction did little to control the compulsions.

From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2024

I guessed that he had the jelly beans to make it look like he was offering kids a treat, but in actuality he never did and went on his own jelly-bean-eating binges.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

It then became an entertainment powerhouse by paying up for original series that could be streamed over the internet and often binged in a single evening.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026

In reply to the post, Taraji P Henson - star of hits including Hidden Figures and Empire - said the show had had her in a "chokehold" and she had binged it in one day.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

I recently binged the new “Love is Blind” season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026

They remember the shows that defined their childhood; that had them planted on couches for appointment viewing; that they binged when streaming came into the picture; that were fodder for water-cooler conversations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

She binged and dieted and then cycled through it all again.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

With a major career milestone within her reach and increased appearances in front of the camera, the sudden pressures on Maddie trigger long-hidden patterns of disordered eating: bingeing and purging, secrets and lies.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026

Now you just drop a service entirely at the click of a button, when a sports season ends or you’re done bingeing a favorite show.

From MarketWatch ● May 28, 2026

He has a casual demeanor and speaks English with an American accent picked up bingeing shows including “Entourage” and “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026

The pupils all insist they are not bingeing more before and after school.

From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026

Mustafa is sprawled in his usual spot on the sofa watching an episode of the latest show he’s bingeing and doesn’t look up when we come into the room.

From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan

I’m also nearly finished binging the sweet but juicy Peacock show “The Five-Star Weekend,” which is based on the Nantucket-set Elin Hilderbrand novel of the same name.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

Still, patient viewers can save by waiting a couple months and binging the full seasons of both.

From MarketWatch ● May 31, 2026

And right now we just finished binging “From.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2025

For Sinead Quinn, she's "at a point in my life, I know this cycle of binging and restrictive dieting needs to stop".

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2025

He remembers once telling Volpe that he was binging on Kurt Vonnegut novels, “going through a Vonnegut stage.”

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove


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