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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
In the Paul Thomas Anderson film, out this weekend, DiCaprio plays Bob, a revolutionary turned stoner dad who is hanging around his house and has to quickly leave to go in search of his teenage daughter Willa, played by Chase Infiniti.
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Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 28 Sep. 2025
In the father-daughter opening scene, Willa rebukes her loving, but paranoid stoner father for his lifestyle.
—Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 27 Sep. 2025
Names and backstories are different, but in Pynchon’s text, stoner pianist Zoyd Wheeler is taking odd jobs and government disability checks obtained by staging regular psychotic episodes, when federal agent Brock Vond drives him and his 14-year-old daughter Prairie from their home.
—Rory Doherty, Time, 26 Sep. 2025
Ron Slater, the film's resident stoner who has interesting theories about George and Martha Washington, was played by Rory Cochrane.
—Kate Hogan, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025
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Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 28 Sep. 2025
In the father-daughter opening scene, Willa rebukes her loving, but paranoid stoner father for his lifestyle.
—Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 27 Sep. 2025
Names and backstories are different, but in Pynchon’s text, stoner pianist Zoyd Wheeler is taking odd jobs and government disability checks obtained by staging regular psychotic episodes, when federal agent Brock Vond drives him and his 14-year-old daughter Prairie from their home.
—Rory Doherty, Time, 26 Sep. 2025
Ron Slater, the film's resident stoner who has interesting theories about George and Martha Washington, was played by Rory Cochrane.
—Kate Hogan, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stoner
Noun
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What To Know Propel surveyed 2,463 active SNAP users between October 20 and 21, 2025, to assess how a potential delay in SNAP payments would impact them.—
Aliss Higham,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Oct. 2025
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Some of these technologies are essential for ensuring the proper functioning of the service or website and cannot be disabled, while others are optional but serve to enhance the user experience in various ways.—
Walden Green,
Pitchfork,
24 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The portrait of Depardieu that Ferrara gives is the last in Scene’s gallery of fellow addicts, beginning with the author’s immediate family and continuing with his later friends and collaborators, quite a few of whom come to unhappy ends.—
Nick Pinkerton,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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AlAnon is a support group for family and friends of alcoholics/addicts.—
Ramona Sentinel,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Oct. 2025
Noun
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To me, this was not just a patient comatose after a freak accident.—
K.J.S. “Sunny” Anand,
Time,
15 Oct. 2025
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Greenlaw has played just two games total over the last two seasons, since tearing his Achilles in a freak moment running out from the sidelines in February 2024’s Super Bowl.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
15 Oct. 2025
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“Stoner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stoner. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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