drunkards
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Ms. Adelman describes how Lewis’s specimens fell into the hands of a series of botanists—some of them charlatans, drunkards, liars or thieves—who squandered his legacy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
Justice Neil Gorsuch, a conservative, pushed back saying that even early American presidents might have qualified as "habitual drunkards" by the standards of today.
From Barron's • Mar. 2, 2026
In our search for cosmic signals of dark matter, we could be likened to drunkards looking for lost keys beneath lampposts, where the light shines the brightest.
From Scientific American • Jun. 8, 2022
Otto von Bismarck, the 19th-century German chancellor, reportedly said that “God has a special providence for fools, drunkards and the United States of America.”
From Washington Post • Jan. 18, 2021
The hour of the owl, the hour of the wolf, the hour of the nightingale, moonrise and moonset, dusk and dawn, they staggered past like drunkards.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
