junkie
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Investors and industry executives have spent years asking what Roberts, known as a deal junkie, would do next.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Glover, born in 1976 in Pomona, was an adrenaline junkie who dreamed of being everything from a stuntman to a race car driver.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026
But anyone who has followed the man’s career knows he’s a performance junkie.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026
Kosinski doesn’t present as your average adrenaline junkie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025
“If you throw yourself into danger for no reason again, you will have become nothing more than a Dauntless adrenaline junkie looking for a hit, and I’m not going to help you do it.”
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
Everything from diabetes to schizophrenia, he claims, is caused by Americans being junk food junkies.
From Salon ● May 18, 2026
So behold the Office of Personnel Management’s new federal workforce data portal—arguably Washington’s first success in providing useful information to average citizens and policy junkies alike.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026
The movie ultimately treats us like adrenaline junkies, assuming we lack curiosity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2025
It could have been for any other market research exercise, for washing powder or water bills, rather than anything to do with Westminster - so it wasn't a gathering of political junkies.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2025
“The object of attention. Nicole. Gossip junkies love the chase. End that, you end the story.”
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
