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The mainstream hard rockers and hair bands of the 1980s certainly wouldn’t exist without Osbourne, but neither would more niche offshoots, like stoner rock, thrash metal, death metal and doom metal.

From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2025

If “The Big Lebowski” was a Raymond Chandler riff with a Los Angeles stoner for a protagonist, “Drive-Away Dolls” is their version of the 1955 noir “Kiss Me Deadly.”

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2024

Whether championing math, poetry, or just how to be a decent human being, the inspirational teacher is as familiar to movie audiences as the class stoner.

From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2020

“If you say, ‘Oh, I’m going to combine ‘50s orchestral music with heavy metal stoner rock and 20 blaring drums,’” he grins, “people look at you like, ‘That’s impossible.’

From The Verge ● Aug. 27, 2019

The stoner is usually built in direct combination with the cooling equipment, and does its work by means of a gravity separation in an upward-moving column of air.

From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Our heroes are outcasts and nerds, navigating a world of jocks, stoners and cool kids.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2022

But, as local historian Joe Nick Patoski said, one thing united hippies and rednecks, cowboys and stoners, slackers and geeks: music.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2020

In one sketch, they play 18th-century stoners recounting how awesome Mozart was on his 1763 tour, gushing like heavy-metal fans after an AC/DC concert.

From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2016

The fruit stoners, being the adventures of Maria among the fruit stoners. © 24Apr35; A81568.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1963 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Fire flames on my tongue; and though of old the Bactrian prophets were stoned, yet the stoners in oblivion sleep.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville