junkie
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I am a news junkie, so I usually watch whatever is on the news before I go to bed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
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
For example, agents can talk about the latest game to a sports fan and about current events to a news junkie.
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2026
My normally harried, rushed mother always turns into a strung-out retail junkie just before Turkey Day.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
Points junkies say they are playing by the rules, but card agreements give issuers broad discretion to seize rewards and shut down accounts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
Everything from diabetes to schizophrenia, he claims, is caused by Americans being junk food junkies.
From Salon ● May 18, 2026
Asking college students why they bet on sports is like asking adrenaline junkies why they jump out of airplanes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 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
But the notion that climbers are merely adrenaline junkies chasing a righteous fix is a fallacy, at least in the case of Everest.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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