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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
The Baltimore area is seeing changes in its food and drink scene with Fuzzies Burgers partnering with Atlas Restaurant Group, Lost Ark Distilling ending its eight years in business and GameOn in Federal Hill closing in March.
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Matt Hubbard,
Baltimore Sun,
9 Feb. 2025
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David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
12 Dec. 2024
Serving guests, some of them still carousing from the previous evening out, was never enough.
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Michael Barnes,
Austin American-Statesman,
19 July 2024
Another interesting finding from the clinical trial that was more recently reveled is the reduction of visceral fat.
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Yola Robert,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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Monica Cull,
Discover Magazine,
7 Feb. 2025
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