alcoholic
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Statistics Jersey said increases in the cost of household services, alcoholic drinks and food made the most notable contributions to annual rate of inflation.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
Senior officials last month described the planned 50% tariffs on Canada as a response to the country’s discrimination against U.S. alcoholic beverages, U.S. dairy products and U.S. motor vehicles.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
Santa Monica put screens on every block of the Third Street Promenade for World Cup watch parties where patrons were allowed to carry alcoholic beverages within a specific area of the open-air mall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
His order lambastes Canadian provinces for restricting sales of U.S. alcoholic beverages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
After the Georgia legislature declared a prohibition against alcoholic beverages in 1907, Papa quit making or drinking beer—he believed in being law-abiding—and the churches started using fruit nectars instead of wine.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
I’m 26 years sober and in my experience the only people that ever teased me were alcoholics themselves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2023
Children of alcoholics are most often on high alert trying to anticipate other people’s feelings, so they can try to head off problems or incidents before they become overwhelming.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2022
The decision not to entirely fictionalise the island was deliberate: it isn’t renamed, and there is a reference to its former owner, Frederick Charrington, a 19th-century social reformer who created a community for recovering alcoholics.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 7, 2020
But these institutions, particularly the state hospitals, soon became repositories for society’s unwanted and adrift, alcoholics, the indigent and vagrant, mixed in with those experiencing psychosis and severe mood problems.
From New York Times ● Mar. 5, 2018
When the question "Why are there fewer alcoholics in China, Korea, Japan, and India?" was asked, answers were sought in culture.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin
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