intoxicating
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Rock ’n’ roll, with its roots in black American music, offered something urgent and liberating: a sense of community and the intoxicating possibility that nothing was inevitable.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
Toyon brings red berries in winter and white flowers in spring, while California sagebrush and Cleveland sage fill the air with an intoxicating perfume.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026
And yet the way of things at the top is under massive threat - and it's intoxicating.
From BBC • Feb. 28, 2026
This Christian-bro gym culture offers many young men an intoxicating sense of purpose, one in which the pursuit of conventional masculinity is given a kind of divine backing.
From Slate • Jan. 22, 2026
The smell of baked bread and melting chocolate was intoxicating.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
Vocabulary lists containing intoxicating
The Haunting of Hill House
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