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Recent Examples of orgy
Oh, also, that little assignation takes place during Talleyrand’s engagement party, which swiftly segues into a massive pansexual orgy, as such events so often do!
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Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 11 June 2025
In one chapter, Sina adapted choreography used to stage mass battles for an orgy scene at the Department of Motor Vehicles.
—Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
Ava’s mom is in the writers’ room for a wild and perfect news story: Our favorite Las Vegas mayor was caught having an orgy on a zamboni with MULTIPLE hockey players!
—Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 16 May 2025
And over the course of two years, Cawthorn kept the district in the headlines through various scandals from bringing weapons to airports and schools to allegations of insider trading to accusing his colleagues of snorting cocaine and having orgies.
—Danielle Battaglia, Charlotte Observer, 15 May 2025
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Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 11 June 2025
In one chapter, Sina adapted choreography used to stage mass battles for an orgy scene at the Department of Motor Vehicles.
—Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
Ava’s mom is in the writers’ room for a wild and perfect news story: Our favorite Las Vegas mayor was caught having an orgy on a zamboni with MULTIPLE hockey players!
—Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 16 May 2025
And over the course of two years, Cawthorn kept the district in the headlines through various scandals from bringing weapons to airports and schools to allegations of insider trading to accusing his colleagues of snorting cocaine and having orgies.
—Danielle Battaglia, Charlotte Observer, 15 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for orgy
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The teams first played each other in football in 1884, but in 1888, Lehigh fans reportedly burned down the makeshift bleachers at the stadium in the postgame revelry of a win (a pre-Lafayette bonfire became a Lehigh tradition).—
David Ubben,
New York Times,
11 July 2025
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When the group eventually made it to the top, the Sherpas celebrated, but Siffredi was exhausted from the 12-hour climb and didn’t celebrate in the revelry, according to TransWorld Snowboarding, as his mission wasn’t finished: summiting wasn’t the goal, snowboarding down the Hornbein Couloir was.—
Mark Gray,
People.com,
1 July 2025
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The only sober attendees are a father (Sergi López) and his young son (Bruno Núñez) who are hoping to find the boy’s sister, a bohemian swept up in the relentless rhythm of this road-tripping bacchanalia.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
18 May 2025
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Berman flashes back through the lavish bacchanalia of Alex’s last months, through the eyes of a podcaster trying to unravel the mystery of his death, to reveal the knotty story behind the apparent suicide.—
Calum Marsh,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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Whilst the revels did flourish, Freeman labored upon his own grand design — the fair Castle Gwynn, a stone bastion of olden style, rising proudly across from the fields of festivity in Arrington.—
Kirsten Fiscus,
Nashville Tennessean,
22 May 2025
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So the couple also decided to give Huckleberry an important role in their gender revel.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 June 2025
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For the most part, he's either entered a game as a defensive replacement, a pinch-runner, or as a pinch-hitter in a blowout.—
Zach Pressnell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 July 2025
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Then pick up the Dyson Airwrap for easy blowouts at home.—
Isabel Garcia,
People.com,
9 July 2025
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“Orgy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/orgy. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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