alcohol
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Blake Waller, who co-founded the event in 2023 as a way for his friends to gather without alcohol, said they decided to expand as requests came in from people in other cities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
They sold gold, ivory and ultimately enslaved Africans, often those captured in local conflicts, in exchange for the manufactured goods brought mainly by the British and Dutch, including textiles, alcohol and guns.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
“I don’t think drinking or not drinking alcohol should have any impact on the definition of socialization.”
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
Inside the beverage industry, Infante says one of the biggest misconceptions surrounding the explosion of nonalcoholic drinks is that they’re replacing alcohol altogether.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
The room smelled like the alcohol prep pads my uncle kept in the medicine cabinet.
From "Harbor Me" by Jacqueline Woodson
Hydrocarbons and chemical compounds like industrial alcohols and plastics accounted for the bulk of Tehran's exports to Beijing.
From Barron's ● Jan. 13, 2026
This shift pointed to the formation of alcohols, carboxylates, ethers, and carbonyls.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 31, 2025
Deducting the value of fiber and sugar alcohols from the total carbohydrate content of a food gives what's considered its net carb value.
From Salon ● Feb. 29, 2024
There are also polyols or sugar alcohols - erythritol particularly has gained traction in recent years.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2023
The expertise at distillation that medieval Islamic alchemists developed to produce alcohols and perfumes also let them distill petroleum into fractions, some of which proved to be even more powerful incendiaries.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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