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Examples of addict in a Sentence
Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 2 Apr. 2024
For 23 years, my sister was involved with a violent alcoholic and drug addict.
—Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 31 Mar. 2024
Through Michaela, a recovering addict who has lived a hard life, the audience learns that their childhood was scarred by parental loss, abuse and the oppressive power of the church in their lives.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2024
Inside was a white powder, which Smith, a recovering addict, believed to be cocaine.
—Gene Maddaus, Variety, 4 Mar. 2024
The fear of abandonment can cause love addicts to engage in controlling or manipulative behaviors, further straining the relationship.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
Counterfeiters have a higher recidivism rate than heroin addicts, and in 2006 he was arrested after getting into an argument with his son, Art Williams III, who had also begun counterfeiting.
—Jason Kersten, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2024
Despite his success as an artist, Debora was still a drug addict and still in a gang.
—Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2024
Greetings online sleuths, true crime addicts, conspiracy theorists, and Swifites with an unnerving ability to sniff out video Easter eggs, and welcome to day 60 of Britain’s Missing Princess.
—Raven Smith, Vogue, 28 Feb. 2024
Nathan Smith, ABC News, 2 Apr. 2024
Nobody wants their kids to be addicted to their phones.
—Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2024
The younger one, however, was addicted to drugs, dropped out of college and has built up debt trying to realize a dream of becoming a singer.
—Patrick Frater, Variety, 13 Mar. 2024
On more than one occasion, parents have filed lawsuits against social-media companies alleging their algorithms were designed to keep users scrolling ad infinitum, essentially addicting their children to the platform.
—Paolo Confino, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2024
Led the Anti Cheese Heroin Campaign that killed 37 teenagers and addicted thousands of young Children.
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—Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
And he is charged with knowingly possessing the revolver despite the restrictions against people addicted to drugs owning firearms.
—Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2024
Newsom’s Proposition 1— a proposal to pump more money into treating homeless people who are mentally ill, drug addicted or alcoholics — may finally pass after vote counting is completed.
—George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
And if people got addicted to figuring things out for themselves, they’d be inoculated against having to take the word of whatever bullies happened to be in power.
—Kc Cole, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2024
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Word History
Noun
derivative of addict entry 2
Verb
earlier, "to give over, surrender, apply or devote (oneself) habitually," borrowed from Latin addictus, past participle of addīcere "to assign (property), make over, hand over, surrender," from ad- ad- + dīcere "to speak, say" — more at diction
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“Addict.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/addict. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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