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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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Between May 1 and Oct. 2 of last year, the city dropped more than 250 domestic violence assault cases and more than 270 drunken driving cases due to an inability to meet the 120-day deadline Alaska sets for upholding a defendant’s right to a speedy trial.—
Kyle Hopkins,
ProPublica,
11 July 2025
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Jurors did convict her of a lesser charge: drunken driving, also called operating under the influence, or OUI.—
Flint McColgan,
Boston Herald,
10 July 2025
Adjective
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He was arrested twice for driving drunk, in 2012 and 2019.—
Christopher Rudolph,
People.com,
3 July 2025
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But even just bringing up the incident is enough to send a very drunk Lisa off the deep end.—
Tom Smyth,
Vulture,
3 July 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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After Clark returns to the Fortress of Solitude, there’s a large crash and a very inebriated Kara Zor-El comes plummeting through the wall.—
Monica Mercuri,
Forbes.com,
13 July 2025
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As the movie begins wrapping up, his Kryptonian cousin Kara Zor-El aka Supergirl (played here by Milly Alcock of House of the Dragon) crashes into Superman’s icy hideaway, more than a little inebriated.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Vulture,
11 July 2025
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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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Thomas most recently spent 2020 to 2023 incarcerated for driving while intoxicated and harassment of a public servant, a third-degree felony, according to Texas Department of Public Safety records.—
Zoe Sottile,
CNN Money,
8 July 2025
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Very intoxicated individuals may experience vomiting, loss of consciousness or even dangerously slowed breathing.—
Jesse Pines,
Forbes.com,
7 July 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
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Each year, thousands of bourbons are blind tasted by expert judges from around the globe.—
Hudson Lindenberger,
Forbes.com,
16 July 2025
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The vastly experienced reporter, who is blind, was granted the interview to mark a year since the assassination attempt on Trump near Butler, Pennsylvania, last year.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
15 July 2025
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“Beery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beery. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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