junkie
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The upshot of “The Next Movement” is that this critic is not a dance junkie, per se.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 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
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
Kallman is a self-described music junkie with a personal collection of two hundred thousand records and CDs.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
Rewards junkies say they are playing by the rules.
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
Skyhorse publishes a wide range of material including books for children, sports fans and political junkies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 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
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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