addicted
Example Sentences
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You may end realizing that it is the people addicted to their feeds who are missing out, not you.—J.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
I get why people get addicted to online trading.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
Before much cooking can occur, however, Gruel explains that many Americans are addicted to processed foods because those foods have been chemically engineered to be addictive.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
“My imagined audience is of people in America who are not addicted to politics but are addicted to good citizenship and the idea of fulfilling their civic virtue,” Stirewalt said in a recent interview.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Both of them overburdened and ill-equipped, weak by nature or circumstance, married to strong-willed, selfish men, addicted to the opiate of sleep.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
