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bacchanals



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All financial bacchanals end when an event, often minor but only obvious in hindsight, sets off an uncontrollable chain reaction.

From MarketWatch Jul. 9, 2026

The office holiday gathering itself has come a long way from the bacchanals I survived early in my career.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 17, 2025

Similar Christmas-themed bacchanals were slated in cities across the U.S. and Europe, from San Francisco and Cincinnati to London and Berlin, on Saturday.

From Seattle Times Dec. 9, 2023

None of the leading participants in that decade’s bacchanals are interviewed.

From The Guardian Feb. 10, 2017

These amorous nations were consistent; to them everything was a God, even fear and its cowardice, even crime and its bacchanals.

From The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories by Balzac, Honor? de




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