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tavern

[tav-ern] / ˈtæv ərn /


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Plus, a growing heart-attack risk, the corporate jargon we hate and the return of the neighborhood tavern.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026

The police added that the tavern was licensed.

From BBC • Dec. 21, 2025

In “Twenty-Sided Tavern,” there are three core actors playing and acting out the game, one dungeon master and a sort of tavern keeper helping to keep score and track of the story.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025

We could have been in a sailor’s tavern in Whitefish Bay in 1975.

From Slate • Nov. 10, 2025

There were always messengers going by and trains of supply wagons crunching over the snow and sometimes groups of soldiers on work parties would appear at the tavern for beer.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier




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