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Recent Examples of bacchanal
The infamous bacchanal held in the dusty, dry lake bed of Nevada’s Black Rock Desert started at a high of 98 degrees Fahrenheit on Monday, August 29.
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Alden Wicker, WIRED, 4 Apr. 2023
The woman at the center of revelations of bacchanals at the former Italian prime minister’s villa is still fighting a court case, and a negative public image, 14 years later.
—Emma Bubola, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2024
Or perhaps there are simply too many visions, all elbowing for center stage in Coppola’s rowdy bacchanal.
—Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Sep. 2024
But, in a stroke of political savvy, Harrison leaned into the image, campaigning from town to town in a kind of roving bacchanal.
—Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
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Alden Wicker, WIRED, 4 Apr. 2023
The woman at the center of revelations of bacchanals at the former Italian prime minister’s villa is still fighting a court case, and a negative public image, 14 years later.
—Emma Bubola, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2024
Or perhaps there are simply too many visions, all elbowing for center stage in Coppola’s rowdy bacchanal.
—Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Sep. 2024
But, in a stroke of political savvy, Harrison leaned into the image, campaigning from town to town in a kind of roving bacchanal.
—Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bacchanal
Noun
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That includes threesomes, swingers parties, or orgies.—
Elizabeth Ayoola,
Essence,
22 Feb. 2025
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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
Noun
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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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Koh Phangan has long been known for its full moon parties, an all-night beach rave that draws thousands of revelers to Haad Rin every month.—
Lauren Mowery,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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What is To Catch a Killer about? To Catch a Killer is about Eleanor Falco (Woodley), a Baltimore cop with a troubled past and a history of addiction who gets recruited by a team of FBI agents to help track down a sniper responsible for the murders of several New Year's revelers.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
22 Feb. 2025
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The black hole at the heart of our galaxy is a real party animal, endlessly blowing cosmic bubbles.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
18 Feb. 2025
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Ronaldinho worked hard to justifiably earn a reputation as a party animal throughout his career.—
The Athletic Staff,
The Athletic,
30 Dec. 2024
Noun
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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
Noun
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The man in charge of this band of merrymakers is Nigel Petersen — a thinly disguised Lorne Michaels — an inscrutable star-maker whose whims have shaped late-night comedy since the early 1980s.—
Ron Charles,
Washington Post,
28 Mar. 2023
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According to the study, led by Shevach Friedler and published in Fertility and Sterility, a medical merrymaker visited the fertility clinic regularly for a year.—
Patrick Morgan,
Discover Magazine,
14 Jan. 2011
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The confrontation intensified as partygoers from a nearby house flooded into the street.—
Elizabeth Keogh,
New York Daily News,
19 Feb. 2025
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The Spider-Man actor was then seen casually engaging with partygoers and cradling a baby while asking how old the little one was.—
Elizabeth Ayoola,
Essence,
4 Feb. 2025
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“Bacchanal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bacchanal. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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