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inebriate

verb as in intoxicate

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Senator Bernie Sanders, one of Platner's most prominent supporters, defended him on Tuesday, saying the tattoo was chosen while he was inebriated.

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It generates nearly $100 billion in free cash flow each year and, unlike its megacap tech peers, isn’t spending like an inebriated sailor on artificial intelligence.

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Specktor was forced to get his mom, inebriated and sometimes unconscious, to her room safely.

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While some believed that King had been drinking, no one told The Times that King appeared seriously inebriated.

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In the hours after the shooting, seized by guilt and self-loathing, an inebriated Ferguson wished aloud for the death penalty, demanded to be punched in the face and predicted that he would burn in hell.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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