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Moderation is in fashion and the share of Americans who say they drink alcohol hit a record low of 54% in 2025, according to a Gallup poll.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

The news that “Stranger Things” debuted 10 years ago and “Hannah Montana” is nearly old enough to drink kills off a few neurons in the parts of their brains that insist they’re still young.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

Hoping to inspire her UK followers to experiment with the vegetable, she made a sweetcorn latte inspired by a frappé drink she'd had on her trip, using coconut milk, blended sweetcorn and espresso.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

Halfway into my second drink, a scruffy, tall guy with silvery blond hair from New York sat down next to me.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Maggie tried not to appear too eager, but she took a big drink.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Major drinks companies invested heavily in stocks between 2021 and 2024 when the industry was booming.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

Tirtha Dhar, a marketing professor who studies consumer choice at the University of Guelph in Canada, says cold drinks have become a "sweet spot" for Starbucks' bottom line.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

Though founded as a coffee shop more than five decades ago, Starbucks says that three out of every four drinks it now sells are cold.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

"Cold drinks are a form of self-expression," he says.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

The waitress delivers our drinks, and Celia takes a sip of her iced tea.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

There have always been people who drank sparingly or didn’t drink at all.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

The study followed adults who drank 500ml of pure pasteurized orange juice every day for two months.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026

When Lee started to feel sick at Medoc, she skipped a few of the châteaus and drank water instead.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

She ate and drank what would be expected of someone exerting herself to the nth degree.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

He drank large draughts of his wine and ran about everywhere like a wild animal, shouting and yodeling.

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig

In an egg-and-spoon race, no one gets lonely or drunk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

At the beginning of the study, participants completed detailed food questionnaires describing what they had eaten and drunk during the previous year.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026

Haddad, in his 60s, said he and his daughter had drunk six litres of water between them in a single day.

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

“As explained in Superman, the same way she gets drunk — she goes to a planet with a red sun,” Gunn wrote on Threads.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026

The crowd, full of good feeling, replete with food and drunk with the music, vicariously excited, pressed round, eagerly thrusting over their heads garland after garland of flowers; the earth was spattered with petals.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

Non-potable water has not been treated to the same levels and is not safe for drinking but can be used in industrial settings and for irrigation.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

Lila Pieters Yahia, the UN resident coordinator for Nepal, said drinking water was being airlifted into affected areas.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

I've been struggling with a condition called trigeminal neuralgia, external that causes excruciating pain like an electric shock across the side of my face, which can stop me from speaking, eating or drinking.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

That said, there are cases of endurance athletes drinking excessive fluids, resulting in life-threatening conditions like hyponatremia, when blood sodium levels drop too low.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Apparently the trader had no qualms about drinking swill himself.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer