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tavern

[tav-ern] / ˈtæv ərn /


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Imagine if the Founding Fathers were dropped into a Pittsburgh tavern on a fall Sunday afternoon with a Steelers game on.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026

The police added that the tavern was licensed.

From BBC • Dec. 21, 2025

In “Twenty-Sided Tavern,” there are three core actors playing and acting out the game, one dungeon master and a sort of tavern keeper helping to keep score and track of the story.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025

We could have been in a sailor’s tavern in Whitefish Bay in 1975.

From Slate • Nov. 10, 2025

Their cover was blown when an African-American woman who was waiting on them in a local tavern recognized one of the men as a British officer from Boston.

From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen




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