cocktail

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The decline comes amid a cocktail of rising bond yields, surging oil prices and profit-taking, and provides the backdrop for this week’s hotly-anticipated first quarter earnings from Nvidia.

From Barron's • May 18, 2026

With alcohol consumption ebbing again, the brand is now experimenting with a zero-alcohol citrus cocktail it calls Citrus Sin—in homage to Beam’s Prohibition-informed philosophy that not promoting agriculture and community employment was a sin.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

And as MAGAdom rounded into shape, and I started telling my girlfriend about Milo Yiannopoulos, she said, “Rather than talking about this guy at a cocktail party, you should be writing a newsletter about it.”

From Slate • May 7, 2026

Combined with his inspiring observations about embracing the healing power of artistic control, it mixes up a cocktail of feel-good brain chemistry that can be a powerful antidote to our worries.

From Salon • May 2, 2026

‘To stop you getting impatient, that’s why. You don’t really want to stand around at the cocktail party being all sweet and petty. She’s just making a pet out of you.”

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman