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
But anyone who has followed the man’s career knows he’s a performance junkie.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026
Here are the best new series to stream this Halloween, whether you’re a true-crime junkie, a horror fanatic or someone who can’t handle the sight of blood on your screen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2025
“And what I meant by that was, he didn’t have all the hype but he was a football junkie, he had a passion for the game.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2025
Kallman is a self-described music junkie with a personal collection of two hundred thousand records and CDs.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
So behold the Office of Personnel Management’s new federal workforce data portal—arguably Washington’s first success in providing useful information to average citizens and policy junkies alike.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 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
The end of the line for Superman was met with an outpouring of grief from adrenaline junkies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2025
"Democracy" is a word that may sound soaring to political junkies, but feels bureaucratic and frankly bloodless to many others.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2024
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
