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Recent Examples of bacchanalia
Unlike recent eat-the-rich offerings, Blink Twice is only partially about ultra-wealthy bacchanalia.
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Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Aug. 2024
That interpretation was common to many viewers, but the artistic director of the ceremony later said the tableau was meant to depict a Greek bacchanalia, and was not staged as a mockery of Christ’s final meal.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 30 July 2024
The internal records obtained by AP show the DEA disciplined or ousted at least a dozen other agents for either participating in the bacchanalia or failing to sound the alarms about it.
—CBS News, 25 July 2024
Cue the wedding-preliminary this and that, the roving bacchanalia of drinking and partying and parasailing, with Marilyn’s fiancé steering clear by design (his and the screenwriters’), so as not to intrude on the girls’ weekend.
—Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 July 2024
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Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Aug. 2024
That interpretation was common to many viewers, but the artistic director of the ceremony later said the tableau was meant to depict a Greek bacchanalia, and was not staged as a mockery of Christ’s final meal.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 30 July 2024
The internal records obtained by AP show the DEA disciplined or ousted at least a dozen other agents for either participating in the bacchanalia or failing to sound the alarms about it.
—CBS News, 25 July 2024
Cue the wedding-preliminary this and that, the roving bacchanalia of drinking and partying and parasailing, with Marilyn’s fiancé steering clear by design (his and the screenwriters’), so as not to intrude on the girls’ weekend.
—Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bacchanalia
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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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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“Bacchanalia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bacchanalia. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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