as in user
a person who regularly uses drugs especially illegally
a comedy about aging stoners who are still trying to get their act together
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Recent Examples of stoner
Pizza Movie Smiley Face meets 22 Jump Street in this unapologetically goofy fever dream of a Gen Z stoner comedy.
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Rebecca Aizin, PEOPLE, 3 Apr. 2026
The show stars Camila Morrone as Rachel Harkin, a moody stoner chick who falls for her golden retriever fiancé Nicky Cunningham (Adam DiMarco) despite their differences.
—Sam Reed, Glamour, 2 Apr. 2026
From their breakthrough comedy albums to their wildly successful movies, these two invented stoner comedy.
—K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 1 Apr. 2026
On the left, Anderson trots out stock characters — the oversexed Black woman revolutionary, Leo's cuckolded white stoner, doctrinaire newcomers — from a Bob Hope skit about hippies.
—Gustavo Arellano, Houston Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2026
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Rebecca Aizin, PEOPLE, 3 Apr. 2026
The show stars Camila Morrone as Rachel Harkin, a moody stoner chick who falls for her golden retriever fiancé Nicky Cunningham (Adam DiMarco) despite their differences.
—Sam Reed, Glamour, 2 Apr. 2026
From their breakthrough comedy albums to their wildly successful movies, these two invented stoner comedy.
—K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 1 Apr. 2026
On the left, Anderson trots out stock characters — the oversexed Black woman revolutionary, Leo's cuckolded white stoner, doctrinaire newcomers — from a Bob Hope skit about hippies.
—Gustavo Arellano, Houston Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stoner
Noun
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OpenAI recently fell short of internal targets for revenue growth and users, The Wall Street Journal reported , citing people familiar with the matter.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
28 Apr. 2026
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That discrepancy in rates can appear striking on paper, but lower industrial pricing does not automatically mean residential customers are subsidizing large-volume users, according to Piedmont.—
Nora O'Neill,
Charlotte Observer,
28 Apr. 2026
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This inciting incident gradually links together other dark threads in the building, including a gambling addict attempting to hide a corpse and a woman living alone who is the victim of an assault.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
4 May 2026
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AlAnon is a support group for family and friends of alcoholics/addicts.—
Ramona Sentinel,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Apr. 2026
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“Stoner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stoner. Accessed 10 May. 2026.
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