addiction
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At the height of her phone addiction, she would not sleep for days.
From BBC • Jun. 28, 2026
As much as the movie frets about kids with a death-grip on their technological addiction, it also wants to play in perpetuity on millions of streaming devices, including an officially licensed “Toy Story”-branded tablet.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2026
Maybe this ban will save children from the hungry maw of social media addiction.
From Slate • Jun. 18, 2026
But increased funding streams for education and addiction treatments are Band-Aids, not cures.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 14, 2026
In the case of technology, phone use or Internet addiction, he says he hears lots of versions of a story in which someone loses the phone for a day, or the power goes out.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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