junkie
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The self-described data junkie now has a new obsession: the wooden poles that carry power lines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 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
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
My normally harried, rushed mother always turns into a strung-out retail junkie just before Turkey Day.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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
Many Criterion junkies have imagined what it would be like to hang out in that closet — to be enveloped in that cozy cocoon of great movies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 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
“The object of attention. Nicole. Gossip junkies love the chase. End that, you end the story.”
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
