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
Last week he banned Canadian imports of alcoholic beverages and motorcycles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Also, think about whether you want to cover alcoholic drinks.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 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
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
I'm sure studies have been done but what percentages of the homeless can be categorized as the mentally il and what percentages are considered alcoholics or drug addicts?
From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 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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