alcohol
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Venues could also be barred from serving alcohol to anyone not sitting down with a substantial meal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Ottawa has reportedly offered concessions such as pressuring provinces to put US alcohol and wine back on their shelves, Canadian media said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
Lifestyle factors — such as diet, sleep, regular exercise, managing blood pressure and blood sugar, avoiding tobacco and alcohol — can reduce the risk of dementia by up to 45%, Tan said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
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
So, I just said, “Um...I’ll have a Coke?” and then wished I’d said it less like a question and more like someone who’s completely comfortable with the fact that she doesn’t drink alcohol.
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
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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
From there, the researchers build the structure in stages, adding chemical functional groups, including alcohols, ketones, and amides, while carefully controlling stereochemistry at each step.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 22, 2025
There are also polyols or sugar alcohols - erythritol particularly has gained traction in recent years.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2023
Fermenting encompasses a range of processes through which microorganisms — yeasts, molds, bacteria — break down compounds in food to create alcohols, acids or alkalis, which in turn prevent the growth of harmful pathogens.
From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2023
Many of these fractions, the sugars and starches, the alcohols and acids, the emulsifiers and stabi lizers with the strange names, will be made into food.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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