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alcoholic

[al-kuh-haw-lik, -hol-ik] / ˌæl kəˈhɔ lɪk, -ˈhɒl ɪk /




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Last week he banned Canadian imports of alcoholic beverages and motorcycles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Canadian provinces had looked poised to put American alcoholic products back on their store shelves last month as Trump and Canadian officials appeared close to achieving a new trade deal.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

The response targets various alcoholic drinks and dairy products like whey, according to a series of White House statements signed by the president.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 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

Also because it has this big old madman desk in it that D.B. bought off some lady alcoholic in Philadelphia, and this big, gigantic bed that's about ten miles wide and ten miles long.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger

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

Some advocates trace L.A.'s failed policies to the city's 1975 "containment" policy on skid row, long the haven of last resort for alcoholics, the unemployable and disabled people.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2019

It speaks volumes to one's self-regard when they feel empowered to over-ride the collective wisdom and experience of hundreds of thousands of other recovered alcoholics.

From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2018

I have been actively engaged in the practice of medicine for nearly twenty-five years, in the early portion of which I prescribed alcoholics moderately but yet with considerable frequency.

From Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Martha Meir Allen


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