beverage
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of beverage
1250–1300; Middle English < Anglo-French beverage, bevarage, equivalent to be ( i ) vre to drink + -age -age
Example Sentences
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The Taiwanese beverage, which blends black tea, milk, sugar, and chewy tapioca pearls, has spread worldwide since it first appeared in the 1980s.
From Science Daily
Dutch Bros, a coffee and beverage chain still unknown in many parts of the country, is becoming a thorn in Starbucks’s side.
Celsius has garnered a committed base of customers, who increasingly treat the company’s energy drinks like a daily coffee or a social beverage rather than a one-off jolt.
From Barron's
"The beverage industry is actually a system of small, independent businesses, some of which have been in the same families for generations," a spokesman for the American Beverage Association tells the BBC.
From BBC
The largest contributor to annual inflation in January was housing, followed by food and nonalcoholic beverages.
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