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
But anyone who has followed the man’s career knows he’s a performance junkie.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 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
Now you can be a cord-cutter and a TV news junkie too.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2025
Kallman is a self-described music junkie with a personal collection of two hundred thousand records and CDs.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
Everything from diabetes to schizophrenia, he claims, is caused by Americans being junk food junkies.
From Salon ● May 18, 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
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
