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In fact it must always be the last resort, and then not be allowed to turn into an orgy of dominance over the foe.

From Salon • Nov. 8, 2022

The festival of guesswork, the orgy of speculation.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2022

When Atiya Walcott’s Eve confronts a multiheaded Serpent, conceived as an orgy of voices and limbs, human vulnerability is endowed with aching grace.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2021

In the video, he quotes the novelist Leo Tolstoy: “The villains who robbed the people gathered together, recruited soldiers and judges to guard their orgy, and are feasting.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 26, 2021

He spent his time exercising his horse, unless he got an order to ride express for the Afric Queen, in learning to write with his left hand, and an orgy of reading.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes