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drink

[dringk] / drɪŋk /




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Maybe it’s just opening the refrigerator and finding something cold and lovely to drink.

From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026

It’s the digital equivalent of the King Midas myth, in which the king’s ill-defined wish turns even his food and drink into gold.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

That list included firearms, cigarettes, outside food and drink, and bears.

From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026

They have a drink that is so delicious.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

The pungent scents of Mr. Lew’s unwashed body and the pot-boiled astragalus-and-longan-berry tea he’d been ordered to drink four times a day seeped in from the kitchen.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Simon: "Going for a few drinks with the opposition - you would think that that happens in sport all the time, but they lost?"

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

It also has the Boring Bodega, a cafe and store open to the public that sells Musk-themed T-shirts, food and drinks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Wilson currently is CFO at advertising group WPP, and previously held financial and commercial roles at drinks company Britvic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Football fans were shown a "constant bombardment" of advertisements promoting junk food and drinks during matches at the 2026 Fifa World Cup, according to a new study.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

At halftime I saw a couple of younger boys haul in crates of drinks, and I wondered what was going on.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

Babysat me while my parents drank tea with her mother.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

One study found that people who consumed at least one serving of skim or low-fat milk each day had a 19% increased risk of prostate cancer compared with those who rarely drank it.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

Our test vehicle drank deeply from Porsche’s cup of excess.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

He made it himself, she tells BBC Global Women, but "it tasted bad… so I drank about half".

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

Tears tumbled into the hot tea as I drank.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

“My perception sometimes was that they had drunk too much of their own Kool-Aid,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

“Do we hold bars responsible for the things drunk people do on public sidewalks?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

Testing by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation showed that two people had drunk from the bottle, leaving a mixture of their DNA.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

You’ve seen it, I’ve seen it, your second cousin who gets too drunk at every family wedding has seen it.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

Maggie Fox was used to managing difficult men of the middle and upper classes, whether drunk, rude, or simply full of themselves.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

The program has generated more than $36 billion in revenue since its inception, and the money goes to support affordable housing, wildfire resilience, clean drinking water, the high-speed rail and other projects.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

However, he would like to see more shade and drinking fountains available.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

But it might as well be drinking electrons through a straw.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

A separate experiment tested a simpler approach: giving mice D-serine in their drinking water for three weeks.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

They are sitting together at the table, drinking chai.

From "Zara’s Rules for Record-Breaking Fun" by Hena Khan




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