How to Use stan in a Sentence
stan
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For Agatha Christie stans and those who love them.
—Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 2 Nov. 2022
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Be very careful around the Austen stans.
—Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
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Now folks are playing the blame game, trying to sic the stans on each other.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026
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Make sure to light a candle for the ex-Nicki stans in your life in these trying times.
—James Factora, Them., 16 Dec. 2025
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Calling all Blair Waldorf stans!
—Christina Perrier, InStyle, 25 Feb. 2026
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The replies are mostly AI bots, or rage-baiting stan accounts.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 15 Feb. 2026
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But true stans of the artist may also wonder at seemingly deliberate omissions.
—Chris Lee, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2025
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As his relevance falters, Drake’s eye for slights and score-settling has grown so microscopic that even his stans need tweezers.
—Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 18 May 2026
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Somehow, Julia Quinn stans found it, and Variety reported on the rumor she’d been cast as the lead.
—Madeline Hirsch, InStyle, 19 Jan. 2026
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His Traitors co-stars, the general public, Love Island stans—everyone can’t get enough of the guy with the snake tattoos.
—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 20 Feb. 2026
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As for streaming, Wicked stans were able to watch the movie on Peacock as early as March 21, 2025.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 23 Nov. 2025
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Naturally, this sparked a lot of questions from Nicolandria stans who are not used to seeing the Love Island star without his partner.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 5 Dec. 2025
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Disappointing as that may be for Riggins stans, the fact that Kitsch was asked confirms that the producers are open to appearances from former cast members.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 5 Aug. 2025
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Calling all Sabrina Carpenter stans.
—Mae Hamilton, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 2025
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Obviously, Stone stans (Stoneheads?
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 11 Aug. 2025
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Dylan O’Brien stans might have already seen Twinless, the movie that got leaked because his die-hards couldn’t resist spoiling a major scene from it out of Sundance.
—Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
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The overlap between devoted Monopoly heads and Wicked stans is, well, two separate circles, orbiting each other but never meeting in the middle.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
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Fuller had recorded the video in the style of a University of Georgia football fan account, but only a small subset of perpetually online Dawgs stans got the joke.
—Tia Mitchell, AJC.com, 1 May 2026
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Prior to running her Chalamet fan account, Cromer was an active stan of X-Men actor Michael Fassbender.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 25 June 2026
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But monkeys typing every day will eventually produce Shakespeare and stans needing attention every day will eventually arrive at face eating.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 20 May 2026
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My beef with Sunset Western Garden Book began with their zoning of orange bells (Tecoma x alate) and yellow bells (Tecoma stans).
—Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 27 Sep. 2025
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Mainstream rap nowadays is suffocating from meaningless rivalries, subliminal shots for stans to decode and misinterpret, and redundant talk of who’s really in the streets and who’s snitching.
—Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
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And so Candace Parker, the two-time league MVP and three-time champion, that Candace Parker, caught the wrath of a segment of Reese stans.
—Candace Buckner, New York Times, 4 May 2026
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As each of the seven members of BTS completed their mandatory South Korean military service, tens of millions of K-pop stans collectively held their breath.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 24 Mar. 2026
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Since select streamers are offering trial periods and limited-time discounts, football fans and Bad Bunny stans can watch the 2026 Super Bowl at no cost; keep reading to learn more about each option.
—Erin Lassner, HollywoodReporter, 8 Feb. 2026
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For years, Harry Potter stans had to travel to Orlando in order to experience the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios Florida.
—Kailyn Brown, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2026
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That’s a collision of fandoms — figure skating fans, Laufey stans, KATSEYE devotees and PinkPantheress listeners all converging in one comments section.
—Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2026
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