addicted
Example Sentences
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“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
"We all have phones, we all have similar brain circuitry, and so many of us can become addicted."
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
The government did not allege that he was intoxicated while possessing the firearm, that he was addicted to marijuana, that he had ever threatened anyone, or that his gun ownership had resulted in any danger.
From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2026
Florida's attorney general on Monday sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, accusing the company's ChatGPT chatbot of endangering young users by making them addicted and encouraging harmful behaviors.
From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026
Dimple could see, flush from the endorphins of a great performance, why actors and performers got addicted to this kind of thing.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
