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That includes threesomes, swingers parties, or orgies.—
Elizabeth Ayoola,
Essence,
22 Feb. 2025 -
The athletes will be congratulating each other — and often even themselves — in an orgy of antics, some qualifying as in your face and over the top.—
Bob Brody,
New York Daily News,
9 Feb. 2025
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Some instead clamored for New Orleans's own Lil Wayne, a living embodiment of the raucous creativity and bacchanalia of the city hosting Super Bowl LIX.—
Andrew R. Chow,
TIME,
10 Feb. 2025
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The film won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1960 and stars one of Fellini’s muses, Marcello Mastroianni, as a tabloid journalist on a week-long bacchanalia through the ancient, yet modern city in search of love and happiness.—
Harrison Richlin,
IndieWire,
7 Dec. 2024
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Designed as a cyberpunk bacchanal at the end of time, the Chromatica Ball’s aesthetic was harsh and uncompromising, an honest reflection of how Gaga was feeling at the time.—
Jaeden Pinder,
Pitchfork,
7 Mar. 2025
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By now, the regular fans, who, although not quite working stiffs, were obliged to recognize the traditional boundary between week and weekend, were arriving in New Orleans, and the proceedings were morphing from a corporate convention and media event into a mass happening and citywide bacchanal.—
Nick Paumgarten,
The New Yorker,
3 Mar. 2025
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For our spring style issue, style editor Naomi Rougeau hopped a plane to Mumbai to report her profile of designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee amid his spectacular 25th-anniversary gala.—
Julie Belcove,
Robb Report,
8 Mar. 2025
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Panico has been a member of FGI’s board of directors for the past five years and served as the co-chair of its 2024 Night of Stars gala.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
WWD,
7 Mar. 2025
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“Saturnalia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/saturnalia. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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