as in addict
a person who regularly uses drugs especially illegally a person who started out as a user and is now a drug dealer as well

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Recent Examples of user Prime users can also link their NBA League Pass to use in the app and local viewers can sign up for FanDuel Sports Network as an add-on subscription. Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025 In the comments section, Reddit users said that this might be a blessing in disguise. Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025 Reddit users quickly chimed in with possible explanations. Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025 OpenAI is facing a lawsuit from the family of a 16-year-old ChatGPT user who died by suicide in April. Dave Smith, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for user
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Noun
  • Seeing a drug addict let loose on your block is maddening.
    Joe Dwinell, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Meantime is set in Boyle’s home city of Glasgow and follows Valium addict Felix McAveety, who goes in search of answers when his best friend Marina is found murdered in the local park.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • To me, this was not just a patient comatose after a freak accident.
    K.J.S. “Sunny” Anand, Time, 15 Oct. 2025
  • 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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  • The network was about to hire The Daily Show host when a producer Kimmel worked with on the '90s game show Win Ben Stein's Money suggested that the head of the network watch video of him, Kimmel explained Wednesday on the Where Everybody Knows Your Name podcast.
    Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Oct. 2025
  • To combat this, a 4-2-3-1 can be morphed into multiple defensive shapes depending on the head coach’s preference.
    Mark Carey, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025

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“User.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/user. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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