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Recent Examples of birlThere was sea salt in the air, and sleepless seagulls were birling in the darkness overhead.—Douglas Stuart, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2020 Another, unable to reach dry land, dug his spiked boots into a slippery timber and birled downriver.—Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2019 In some parts of the United States, birling contests are annual events.—Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2019
From there, a series of scenes — a late-night house party full of adults drinking and carousing, a cascade of tinsel falling off a Christmas tree, a playground fail — replicate a you-are-there feeling as a preadolescent named Elwood Curtis navigates the agonies and ecstasies of boyhood.
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
12 Dec. 2024
Serving guests, some of them still carousing from the previous evening out, was never enough.
Michael Barnes,
Austin American-Statesman,
19 July 2024
Her love of science came from watching PBS shows as a kid with her mom and spending too much time binging Doctor Who.
Monica Cull,
Discover Magazine,
26 Dec. 2024
With the series having five mainline games and many spinoffs, there's one question that fans have been asking after binging the 8-episode series - is the Fallout TV show canon?
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