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swilled

verb

past tense of swill

as in gorged

to eat greedily or to excess they can spend hours at the pub, drinking, chatting, and swilling

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as in sipped

to swallow in liquid form they gathered in the break room each morning to swill coffee together before the morning meeting

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Recent Examples of swilled And as always, players swilled beer out of it in front of cheering crowds at the Elbo Room in Fort Lauderdale. — Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025 For live music, Feidiou 2 is a small rebetadiko, or traditional music cafe, known for its melancholic Greek folk music and meze bites swilled down with sharp swigs of tsipouro, a Greek version of grappa. — Anastasia Miari, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Mar. 2024

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America’s Poison Centers’s national helpline receives more than 60,000 calls about possible vitamin poisoning every year, mostly from parents alarmed after their children have accidentally gorged on the chewy sweets.

— Cat Rainsford, Popular Science, 23 July 2026
And while fans have been sated by the footballing feast, FIFA and its member associations have gorged on the tournament’s fruits.

— Tom Kludt, Vanity Fair, 17 July 2026

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Allowing tea to cool until it can be sipped comfortably can prevent burns and could help preserve its potential cardiovascular benefits.

— Faye Chiu, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2026
Under glittering chandeliers, pros like Ben Shelton, Tommy Paul, Leylah Fernandez, and Maria Sakkari played showcase matches as spectators sipped from Champagne flutes.

— Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Oct. 2026

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The severity of their exposure was corroborated by the short life of cats, who feasted on the factory’s omnipresent rodents.

— Wendy S. Walters, Architectural Digest, 12 Oct. 2026
But that isn't all; matter that isn't feasted upon is channeled to the poles of the black hole, from where it is blasted out as twin jets of plasma moving at near-light speed.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 7 Oct. 2026

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