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
The actress plays an outdoors-loving adrenaline junkie harassed by a group of hunters in director Baltasar Kormákur’s spectacular, unsettling film.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 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
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
Soon the world’s media, true-crime junkies and more would descend on her courthouse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026
After all, for some of us L.A. crime movie junkies, off-brand “Heat” is better than no “Heat” at all.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2026
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
Finally, there are the research junkies who do deep dives into a person’s history to create online biographies.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024
“The object of attention. Nicole. Gossip junkies love the chase. End that, you end the story.”
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
