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junkie

[juhng-kee] / ˈdʒʌŋ ki /


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The actress plays an outdoors-loving adrenaline junkie harassed by a group of hunters in director Baltasar Kormákur’s spectacular, unsettling film.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 23, 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 mother was a Masterpiece Theatre junkie back in the day, total anglophile.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

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

Finally, there are the research junkies who do deep dives into a person’s history to create online biographies.

From Slate Oct. 24, 2024

“The object of attention. Nicole. Gossip junkies love the chase. End that, you end the story.”

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin




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