addiction
Example Sentences
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People eat these shows like candy, and while candy can rot your teeth and put on pounds, it can also deliver a jolt of guilty pleasure and feed a sugar addiction.
From Los Angeles Times
She is encouraging further research into women's health and addiction.
From BBC
The Southern Trust is the only trust in Northern Ireland without an inpatient addiction rehabilitation facility, which campaigners have said has created a "postcode lottery".
From BBC
Our innate curiosity, our instinct for gossip and our addiction to messy drama drive us to spend way more time consuming internet nonsense than we should.
At University College London, neuroscientist Dr Ravi Das has been trying to understand why some habits harden into addictions while others fade away.
From BBC
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