faddist

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Noun
  • While some astrology enthusiasts emblazon their sun signs on Instagram bios, others go the permanent route, tattooing eternal odes to the celestial bodies on their actual bodies.
    Micaela English, Travel + Leisure, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Perhaps some enthusiasts will hold out, but plenty won’t.
    Adam Ismail, The Drive, 19 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Years of steadily climbing coffee prices have some in this country of coffee lovers upending their habits by nixing cafe visits, switching to cheaper brews or forgoing it altogether.
    Matt Sedensky, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Fennell cast Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff and Margot Robbie plays Cathy in this tale of childhood friends turned tortured lovers, kept apart by heartbreaking misunderstandings and their own destructive decisions.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 14 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • There’s a fair share of dancefloor warriors—techno devotees, avante-garde fashionistas, curious international travelers, and the enigmatic regulars.
    Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Feb. 2026
  • We were surrounded by thousands of excited young Catholics preparing for the start of an annual pilgrimage from Paris to Chartres, organized by devotees of the traditional Latin Mass.
    Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • However, unexpected and decidedly unwelcome guests keep turning up, including Beau’s brother, and a man who might be a homicidal maniac.
    Matthew J. Palm, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Not the fear of an actor out of her element, or the more mundane fear of a victim being chased around by an ax-wielding maniac.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 31 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Runs also tend to draw as many running fanatics as music fans, bringing a new demographic into each artist’s orbit.
    Katie Bain, Billboard, 11 Feb. 2026
  • But the crowds of pastry fanatics and Maxime Frédéric fans descend on the weekends.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Which makes him pretty much like a lot of his action-sports brethren — all of them adremaline junkies — who will grace the 50-meter-high hill (165 feet) built on a scaffolding at the Winter Olympics in Livigno over the next two weeks.
    Eddie Pells, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2026
  • In the brain scans of other extreme athletes and adrenaline junkies, Amen said there’s often lower baseline activity in the prefrontal cortex, which is involved in fear inhibition, impulse control and risk evaluation.
    Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 30 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The Mad Monarch of Mar-a-Lago is ridiculed worldwide as the babbling fool and face of Satan whose venom is deadly and far-reaching.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 15 Feb. 2026
  • But don’t let the humble exterior fool you.
    USA TODAY NETWORK, USA Today, 11 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Harper and him are both addicts of a certain kind of thrill, a certain kind of action.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Instagram’s parent company Meta and Google’s YouTube face claims that their platforms addict children through deliberate design choices that keep kids glued to their screens.
    Barbara Ortutay, Chicago Tribune, 10 Feb. 2026
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“Faddist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/faddist. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.

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