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  • noun Plural form of bacchanalia.

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Examples

  • One of the unexpected outcomes from our recent self-linking bacchanalias is that they highlight one of this blog's overriding themes — how natural processes, like hydrology, growth and decay, become entangled with human culture.

    Elastic 2008

  • I missed Woodstock, but in my teens I had more than my share of dusty and reckless rock bacchanalias.

    Girlfriends' Guide to Teenagers: Momma Does Coachella! 2010

  • I missed Woodstock, but in my teens I had more than my share of dusty and reckless rock bacchanalias.

    Girlfriends' Guide to Teenagers: Momma Does Coachella! 2010

  • With these upcoming self-linking bacchanalias, then, we should have another chance to at least vocalize another longstanding interest.

    Elastic 2008

  • I missed Woodstock, but in my teens I had more than my share of dusty and reckless rock bacchanalias.

    Vicki Iovine: Girlfriends' Guide to Teenagers: Momma Does Coachella! 2010

  • With these upcoming self-linking bacchanalias, then, we should have another chance to at least vocalize another longstanding interest.

    Archive 2008-03-01 2008

  • One of the unexpected outcomes from our recent self-linking bacchanalias is that they highlight one of this blog's overriding themes — how natural processes, like hydrology, growth and decay, become entangled with human culture.

    Archive 2008-03-01 2008

  • Pete Peterson and his friends have gotten together in recent days for one of their periodic teeth-gnashing, rending-of-clothes bacchanalias, and President Obama's deficit commission is having its first meeting today.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Mike Lux 2010

  • The bicentennial of his birth was the occasion for academic bacchanalias on both sides of the Atlantic.

    The Economist: Correspondent's diary 2010

  • In this year of Darwinian bacchanalias, let us soberly reassess whether Darwin's theory is indeed true.

    unknown title 2009

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