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Recent Examples of red-eye
Dern, who is filming a movie in New York, flew in the night before the Oscars and left on the red-eye flight following the ceremony in order to make her 7 a.m. call time Monday morning.
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Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 3 Mar. 2025
During red-eye flights, four-hour delays, freezing plane cabins, or those moments when the plane gets stuffy, these pants have never let me down in any temperature or circumstance.
—Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 2025
The red-eye flights will be seasonal and run through October 15, and will include Premium and Economy classes on a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner.
—Brandon Withrow, Travel + Leisure, 5 Feb. 2025
Tattle, a junior, now with 12 goals, had to travel home to Vancouver for a family matter this week, returning on a red-eye flight, landing at JFK early Friday.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 25 Jan. 2025
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Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 3 Mar. 2025
During red-eye flights, four-hour delays, freezing plane cabins, or those moments when the plane gets stuffy, these pants have never let me down in any temperature or circumstance.
—Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 2025
The red-eye flights will be seasonal and run through October 15, and will include Premium and Economy classes on a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner.
—Brandon Withrow, Travel + Leisure, 5 Feb. 2025
Tattle, a junior, now with 12 goals, had to travel home to Vancouver for a family matter this week, returning on a red-eye flight, landing at JFK early Friday.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 25 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for red-eye
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As alcohol bans lingered, poorer quality substitutes increasingly overwhelmed the black market: bathtub gin, pure grain alcohol and other rotguts.—
David Reamer | Alaska history,
Anchorage Daily News,
23 July 2023
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But mingling with Robert Mitchum and Lana Turner, cocktail in hand, makes even a rotgut movie a top-shelf experience.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
16 May 2023
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It is known for its refreshing notes of honey and lemon, which balance out the immense spice of bathtub gin.—
Bianca Salonga,
Forbes,
23 Nov. 2024
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As alcohol bans lingered, poorer quality substitutes increasingly overwhelmed the black market: bathtub gin, pure grain alcohol and other rotguts.—
David Reamer | Alaska history,
Anchorage Daily News,
23 July 2023
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President Donald Trump threatened Thursday to impose 200% tariffs on alcohol from the European Union in response to the region's retaliatory 50% tariff on U.S. whiskey, further escalating tensions between two longtime trading partners.—
Carlo Angerer,
NBC News,
13 Mar. 2025
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The losses followed Trump's threat to impose hefty tariffs on European wines and alcohol, further escalating trade tensions.—
Hannah Parry,
Newsweek,
13 Mar. 2025
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President Donald Trump’s 25% tariffs on Canada offended leaders there to the point that Ontario fired back by yanking American booze from store shelves.—
Matt Egan,
CNN,
13 Mar. 2025
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Does Alex land in America on the same day that Spencer takes off from Galveston with a truckload of booze for the Italian mafia?—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
9 Mar. 2025
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More than anything, Hemsley and McGowan view the bootleg cookies as proof of unmet demand.—
Simone Melvin,
Forbes,
2 Mar. 2025
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What if three consecutive hours of celebrating ‘S.N.L.’ still isn’t enough for me, a die-hard fan who owns a bootleg recording of Hanks’s first hosting gig in 1985?—
Dave Itzkoff,
New York Times,
16 Feb. 2025
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But the cachaça, made of sugarcane juice, is not such a big leap from rum, made from molasses.—
Hilary Armstrong,
Robb Report,
22 Mar. 2025
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Twists On Tradition Throughout the bushwacker’s history, different places have put their own spin on the ingredient list, but the drink usually contains some combo of rum, coffee liqueur, crème de cacao, amaretto and coconut cream, thickened with milk, half-and-half or ice cream.—
Jennifer Stewart Kornegay,
Southern Living,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Red-eye.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/red-eye. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.
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