1
as in spree
a bout of prolonged or excessive drinking
weekend binges are a serious problem at many colleges and universities
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as in romp
a time or instance of carefree fun
a shopping binge at the mall
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as in event
a social gathering
what should we wear to this binge at the country club?
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Recent Examples of binge
Josef Adalian, Vulture, 11 July 2025
Streaming, with its binge model and personal-device availability, made viewing increasingly less about a family or group of friends gathering around a flat-screen and more about everyone balancing their laptop on their stomachs or hunching over their phones.
—Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2025
Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 25 June 2025
Check out our guides to the best new thrillers and celebrity memoirs to binge, or pick a romance from our recent roundup.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 1 July 2025
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Noun
Netflix shows can do the same thing even with a binge model — but Pulse simply isn’t the same kind of big, showy event series as a Wednesday or Squid Game or even Department Q.
—Josef Adalian, Vulture, 11 July 2025
Streaming, with its binge model and personal-device availability, made viewing increasingly less about a family or group of friends gathering around a flat-screen and more about everyone balancing their laptop on their stomachs or hunching over their phones.
—Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2025
Verb
Check out which else to binge from our favorite 21st century Austen adaptations here.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 25 June 2025
Check out our guides to the best new thrillers and celebrity memoirs to binge, or pick a romance from our recent roundup.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 1 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for binge
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That wound up turning into a chaotic nine-day spree of surprise shows in people’s yards, following a pop-up show on the campus of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.—
Alli Rosenbloom,
CNN Money,
23 July 2025
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Retail traders are on a buying spree that can keep equities marching to record highs.—
Fred Imbert,
CNBC,
23 July 2025
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Kicking off the events is the HaRUNbee 5K Run/Walk for Healthy Birth Outcomes on Saturday, Aug. 2.—
La Risa R. Lynch,
jsonline.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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More Tim Heitman/Getty Images His result at this event gave Charlie 80 points toward the Junior Ryder Cup team's qualifying ranking, bringing his total to 455.—
Julio Cesar Valdera Morales,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Aug. 2025
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More Americans now use cannabis daily than drink alcohol every day.1 Public attitudes toward cannabis have shifted dramatically over the past decade, with some perceiving cannabis to be safer than alcohol.—
Fran Kritz,
Verywell Health,
14 July 2025
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Some factors can make drowning more likely, including not knowing how to swim, a lack of close supervision, not wearing a life jacket and drinking alcohol while recreating near or in water.—
Don Sweeney
July 14,
Sacbee.com,
14 July 2025
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Gunja’s husband was a drunk who sold chicken and mutton bones for a living, collecting them from dhaba eating places, then transporting them to a bone-meal-fertilizer factory.—
Kiran Desai,
New Yorker,
3 Aug. 2025
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Scolding your Valley co-star for being a sloppy drunk is like scolding your Gilded Age co-star for wearing wigs with weird little bangs.—
Michelle Cohn,
Vulture,
24 July 2025
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Each vote of the commission must include members of both political parties to be successful.—
Jessie Opoien,
jsonline.com,
26 July 2025
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Earlier on in the evening, Jenner was spotted leaving West Hollywood celebrity sushi joint fave Sushi Park, heading to the party.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
26 July 2025
Verb
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Many foreign attendees at San Fermín have no stomach for the spectacle and spend their early evenings carousing in local bars instead.—
Tony Perrottet,
Smithsonian Magazine,
30 June 2025
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These increasingly crazed visitors spend their days lazing on the shore, drinking and eating, carousing with prostitutes, and abusing Rosa (played by B-movie actress Leonora Fani, who would also star in the equally notorious vacation film Giallo in Venice) for their own entertainment.—
Erik Morse,
Vogue,
26 June 2025
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Uncle Sam has been on a spending bender and has a $2-trillion deficit to tame.—
Brett Owens,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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There’s also a huge drive for originality, for movies which are genre blenders, benders or flippers.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
14 July 2025
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At a time when deep state cuts have slashed arts funding, horror movies have proven to be a frighteningly resilient business in South Florida — and the proof is in Popcorn Frights, a defiantly indie horror bash that has inexplicably become Broward County’s biggest film festival.—
Phillip Valys,
Sun Sentinel,
2 Aug. 2025
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Kansas native Travis Marvin, T-Marv to his country fans, was performing at the pregame Bud Light bash and invited Foil to join him on stage.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
2 Aug. 2025
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“Binge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/binge. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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