addicted

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Recent Examples of addicted Some people become addicted to the substance and take too much. Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025 Reports say Edwards and his wife became addicted to drugs and were arrested multiple times. Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025 An additional concern about vaping is the emergence of a new generation that has become addicted to nicotine without the use of cigarettes. Omer Awan, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025 By then, his older sister, Janell Smoot, had become addicted to crack. Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for addicted
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Adjective
  • This streamlined area rug from Dash and Albert (an extension of the Annie Selke brand) brings cheerful cabana stripes to your floors, swapping out terrycloth fibers for hand micro-hooked wool for a comfortable texture in high traffic areas.
    Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 6 Oct. 2025
  • What works so well here is how a cloak of ambiguity is constantly draped over the narrative, pulled off at just the right moment to keep us hooked.
    Vincent Acovino, NPR, 22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • In recent years, as the Amazon has experienced droughts and unpredictable flood cycles, the patterns of change residents have grown accustomed to are shifting with the sands.
    Isa Cardona, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Pause exfoliants and retinol If your skin is not accustomed to cold or dry conditions, don’t use exfoliants or retinoids during your trip, since these ingredients can cause irritation and dryness.
    Leslie Baumann, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • So much of the success the Leafs will have this season — for better or worse — is dependent on that shot.
    Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • And this model of access, dependent on negotiation and renegotiation and repeated discussions about individual items, is neither sustainable nor capable of delivering aid at the scale that is needed.
    Anna Halford, Time, 25 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Defeats and disappointment were likely to be part of the mix alongside the winning feeling that everyone connected with Wrexham has got so used to since Parkinson took charge.
    Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Since the Fed's rate cut in September, the interest rates offered to both new and used car buyers have edged down slightly.
    Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 23 Oct. 2025

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“Addicted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/addicted. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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