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Macron said some rioters seemed to be acting out “the video games that have intoxicated them.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 4, 2023
"It sometimes feels like some of them re-live in the streets the video games that have intoxicated them," he said.
From Reuters ● Jun. 30, 2023
The court has not always performed this function of providing a “sober second thought” when fear and paranoia have intoxicated the political branches.
From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2018
It is these that have intoxicated the Princes so that they do this unrecorded thing, letting sound of them be heard in your sacred room.
From Plays of Near & Far by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron Dunsany
I suppose the unwonted speed must have intoxicated us.
From Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan by Percival Lowell
