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bourbon

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noun (2)

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Recent Examples of Bourbon
Noun
Canada is dropping its retaliatory tariffs on a set of American products that includes distilled spirits, according to media reports, marking a positive step forward for Kentucky's marquee bourbon industry, industry leaders said. Killian Baarlaer, Louisville Courier Journal, 23 Aug. 2025 Expect cozy notes of bourbon vanilla, vanilla Madagascar, amyris, and cocoa shell, plus a superfine champagne sparkle that gives skin a radiant gleam. Annie Blackman, Allure, 15 Aug. 2025
Noun
However, as evidenced by cargo thefts such as the recent bourbon theft, there remains a lot of work to do. Steve Weisman, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026 Some bourbon that later achieves premium pricing at auction or retail began as inventory acquired and aged years earlier. William Jones, USA Today, 29 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for Bourbon
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Bourbon
Noun
  • Those two issues, in particular, women’s empowerment and agrarian reform, went over like a lead balloon with the archconservatives of the country, especially religious.
    Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 7 May 2026
  • Rachmaninoff has gone from being widely viewed as a musical archconservative to a protomodernist.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2023
Noun
  • Lindsay Knapp and Maxine Rebeles were among the many veterans at the square on a sweltering morning.
    Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 4 July 2026
  • Enjoy a bowl of this classic hearty ground beef recipe with plenty of shredded cheese, a dollop of sour cream, and maybe a square of corn bread.
    Sheena Chihak, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 July 2026
Noun
  • Still, many traditionalists don’t believe robotic elephants belong in temples.
    ABC News, ABC News, 3 July 2026
  • But Francis also announced restrictions on the Latin Mass in 2021, angering many traditionalists.
    Noah LaBelle, NPR, 2 July 2026
Noun
  • In Zac’s report, Schoonmaker addressed Powell’s legendary filmmaking partnership with Emeric Pressburger, which spawned films such as The Red Shoes, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp and Black Narcissus.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 22 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • This faith caused the neocons to recoil in from the Obama administration’s 2015 nuclear deal with Iran.
    Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 17 June 2026
  • Moreover, during the Iraq war, the Jewish community could effectively argue that framing the conflict as a Jewish neocon conspiracy was baseless, even as some neoconservatives influenced policy.
    Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Senor and Stephens are neoconservatives who hardly needed to be convinced that the members of progressive movements were not friends of the Jewish people.
    Eyal Press, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Moreover, during the Iraq war, the Jewish community could effectively argue that framing the conflict as a Jewish neocon conspiracy was baseless, even as some neoconservatives influenced policy.
    Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The New York Times columnist has penned an unusually smart article identifying the late paleoconservative writer Samuel T. Francis as a prophet of Trumpism.
    Jeet Heer, New Republic, 22 Sep. 2017
  • In his final act of excommunication, Buckley took a stand against the paleoconservative Pat Buchanan in 1991 for expressing opposition to the Persian Gulf war in terms that were both incendiary and undeniably anti-Semitic.
    DAMON LINKER, New York Times, 8 May 2017

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“Bourbon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Bourbon. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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