drunks
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But nearby police officers who weren’t part of the production thought they were just two drunks having fun and yelled at them to get down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Otto von Bismarck’s special providence for “fools, drunks, and the United States of America” may be coming to the aid of the current incumbent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
The pair met “a maddening, intriguing, colorful world of dictators and drunks, scoundrels and socialites, heroes and halfwits,” per Peter Moreira in “Hemingway on the China Front.”
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2025
"Both my daughters are young doctors and they tell me that hospital campuses are overrun by anti-social elements, drunks and touts," she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2024
They make for the lee of the ramparts, both of them staggering like drunks.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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