imbibe
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Listeners, meanwhile, are free to sit back and imbibe the music.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
Fewer people in the U.S. are drinking alcohol, and when they do imbibe, they drink less than they used to.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 23, 2025
An extremely light drinker, Yamamoto said that even the magnitude of this victory couldn’t drive him to imbibe any of the adult beverages provided to the players.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2024
To do that, I journaled, recording the complicated feelings I could no longer inhale, imbibe or eat away.
From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2023
If only he could imbibe some of that night rest!
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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The nectar isn’t so potent that the plants catch every ant that imbibes; many of the insects are able to shrug off its effects and make it home to deliver the sweet treat.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 29, 2023
In other words, Musk, who imbibes and regurgitates bad memes, has built a machine that is also designed to imbibe and regurgitate bad memes.
From Slate ● Nov. 7, 2023
It imbibes the illusion of omnipotence and wallows in self-adulation.
From Salon ● May 7, 2023
With a Bourdain-like gift for chatting up strangers and a willingness to disregard the gross factor, he imbibes traditional drinks from the familiar to the extreme while exploring the cultures that made the cocktails popular.
From Washington Post ● May 7, 2020
For having a little water in the vessel which contains the quicksilver, it imbibes the acid vapour, and at length becomes truly saturated with it.
From Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air by Joseph Priestley
Although in her youth Catherine had imbibed Enlightenment views about the suffering of the common people, she was pragmatic enough to leave undisturbed the adamantine ways of the Russian countryside.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
He used to work with the cousins' fathers: "They were amazing people who loved what they did and have imbibed their children with this altruistic behaviour."
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2025
There are gigantic sandworms to be mounted and surfed like waves, vials of blue goo to be imbibed for clarifying properties, yet “Dune: Part Two” fixes firmly on the idea of authenticity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2024
And while Museveni imbibed Marxism and as a college student sought to verify Frantz Fanon’s theory of violence, Kainerugaba has not outlined his political vision.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2023
A girl with him smiled, tilted her head back, imbibed, laughed.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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But as Americans consume less alcohol than ever, there are still ways to appreciate this ritual without actually imbibing.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
All of which is true but, for a book featuring Franklin and Washington happily imbibing on the cover, it’s a bit of a buzzkill.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
Suzuki exudes the fragility and buoyancy of adolescence, playing Fuki as someone constantly imbibing the world, rarely revealing what she’s doing with that stimulus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
Perhaps the reason is they really are too scared to go into the city, after imbibing years of lies that New York is a war zone.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2024
Sometimes she neglected to ration her water, imbibing too much in the morning and staring with bitterness at the fountain the rest of the day.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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