alcoholic
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Also, think about whether you want to cover alcoholic drinks.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
The response targets various alcoholic drinks and dairy products like whey, according to a series of White House statements signed by the president.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
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
You get breakfast, lunch and dinner, with one alcoholic beverage at lunch and dinner, two $25 roller-coaster tickets and two tickets to select shows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
Also because it has this big old madman desk in it that D.B. bought off some lady alcoholic in Philadelphia, and this big, gigantic bed that's about ten miles wide and ten miles long.
From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
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Mr Ashworth is recognised with a CBE for his charity work on behalf of the children of alcoholics.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025
I’m 26 years sober and in my experience the only people that ever teased me were alcoholics themselves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2023
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
America collected $340,000,000 from tariff taxes in 1911, and $40,000,000 of this from tobacco and alcoholics.
From Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View by Price Collier