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Recent Examples of beery
Several years from now, however, if scientists at the Oregon Hatchery Research Center have their way, some chinook salmon will be chasing a very different scent: the rich, beery bouquet of brewer’s yeast.
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Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 July 2023
In a beery bromance Instagram video posted on Monday (May 15), Combs taught Sheeran how to shotgun a beer.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 16 May 2023
While sanctioned après festivities will be severely curtailed this year, with ski bars closed and beery events canceled, a lot of fun can be had in a parking lot.
—Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online, 20 Nov. 2020
Something about the smell of beery body odours attracts mosquitoes.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 4 Mar. 2010
Founded in 2001, the XFL was loud, beery fun at first.
—Kevin Cook, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2022
Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 July 2023
In a beery bromance Instagram video posted on Monday (May 15), Combs taught Sheeran how to shotgun a beer.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 16 May 2023
While sanctioned après festivities will be severely curtailed this year, with ski bars closed and beery events canceled, a lot of fun can be had in a parking lot.
—Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online, 20 Nov. 2020
Something about the smell of beery body odours attracts mosquitoes.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 4 Mar. 2010
Founded in 2001, the XFL was loud, beery fun at first.
—Kevin Cook, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for beery
Adjective
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The show’s focus puller also does the Lord’s work in the last shot of the beat, just after Deborah’s face turns and looks toward the camera, flashing red for one desperate second before going fuzzy and indistinct, like a drunken exhale.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
3 June 2025
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The officer, Robert Phillips, was accused of intentionally causing the death of Jesse Fischer, whom Phillips suspected of drunken driving, in October 2021.—
Emerson Clarridge,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
28 May 2025
Adjective
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And rather than exact revenge on a jock bully, nerdy William gets drunk, sheds his dorky image, and becomes a party god.—
Brian Boone,
Vulture,
10 June 2025
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The victims of drunk and/or drug driving are not the only people impacted.—
Duane O. King,
Baltimore Sun,
10 June 2025
Adjective
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The job is a ball, interactions take strategy, tipsy men are the obstacles — and obviously, the tips are the prize.—
Skyler Caruso,
People.com,
2 May 2025
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Gently fold the tipsy cherries into the mousse and add some of the remaining liquor (if desired).—
Catharine Kaufman,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The idea to have an extremely inebriated Dave Franco recap the ridiculous events of the penultimate episode of The Studio to kick off the season finale was a rather last-minute one.—
Julia Moore,
People.com,
21 May 2025
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Since then, there have been a string of embarrassing incidents involving alcohol on planes, including inebriated passengers, crewmembers, and even pilots.—
Christopher Elliott,
USA Today,
3 May 2025
Adjective
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Or simply to help other individuals in dire straits — like the widow (Whitney Morgan Cox) and daughter (Veda Cienfuegos) of that inebriate driver, their current plight worsened by the bankruptcy brought on by a Bernie Madoff-like financial predator?—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
30 July 2023
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The money covers additional shelter beds, more street outreach, rapid rehousing, safe parking and the serial inebriate program.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 June 2023
Adjective
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The Houston Police Department later traced these threats to an intoxicated sports bettor from overseas who had lost money betting on the Astros’ May 10 game against the Cincinnati Reds, per Reuters.—
Amy Woodyatt,
CNN Money,
9 June 2025
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Joshua Brito, 33, was charged with driving while intoxicated and reckless endangerment following the incident that happened on Saturday at around 8 p.m. near the east end of Hart Island, according to WABC.—
Landon Mion,
FOXNews.com,
9 June 2025
Adjective
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What too few asked was whether we were meant to realize what’s going on sooner than Irons’s besotted suitor, a man blinded by his romanticized, Orientalist fantasies.—
A.A. Dowd,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2025
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The subtext is so obvious that it can hardly be called subtext, and yet my idiotic, besotted heart continued to thump in the direction of a happy ending.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
6 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Making blind mice see For the experiments, the team selected genetically blind mice that lost their sight shortly after birth due to deteriorating photoreceptor cells.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
12 June 2025
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Understanding and anticipating where earthlike planets form first, and thus targeting observations to avoid blind searches, minimizes the average observation time for detecting an earthlike planets and maximizes the number of detections, the authors write.—
Bruce Dorminey,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2025
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“Beery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beery. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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