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
Instagram launched its newest feature this week, Instagram Map, which allows users to share their live location with their followers.
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Regina Cho, VIBE.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Meanwhile, users sometimes reported side effects including brow heaviness.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 7 Aug. 2025
Rev is used by over a million users, including some of the nation's largest and more reputable law firms, according to a release about the acquisition.
—Karoline Leonard, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
Similar Loop pricing gives us some clues as to what users could pay in Nashville.
—Charles Singh, The Tennessean, 30 July 2025
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Regina Cho, VIBE.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Meanwhile, users sometimes reported side effects including brow heaviness.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 7 Aug. 2025
Rev is used by over a million users, including some of the nation's largest and more reputable law firms, according to a release about the acquisition.
—Karoline Leonard, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
Similar Loop pricing gives us some clues as to what users could pay in Nashville.
—Charles Singh, The Tennessean, 30 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for user
Recent Examples of Synonyms for user
Noun
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Played by Austin Abrams with the wiry desperation and cunning of an addict, James is an unhoused junkie living in a tent in the woods, who has a nasty brush with Paul.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Aug. 2025
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Opioids have ruined and poisoned an entire generation and the addicts need help but so do the property owners of this great city.—
Boston Herald editorial staff,
Boston Herald,
27 July 2025
Noun
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Here is the essential guide to making your house clean enough to satisfy your most critical inner neat freak and launch you into summer with a house that actually shines.—
Rachel Silva,
ELLE Decor,
24 Jan. 2023
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The menu offers appetizers like hummus, 12-inch pizzas, like the meat freak, made with red sauce, mozzarella, sausage, bacon, pepperoni, grilled chicken and oregano flakes.—
Bahar Anooshahr,
The Arizona Republic,
14 Jan. 2023
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Cal Fire representatives said the current parking mess has already impacted them because the driveway to their station enters the highway not far from the trail head.—
J. Harry Jones,
Ramona Sentinel,
19 July 2017
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Now, Maineri heads into year 12 with 18 pitchers on his roster, hoping that rising junior Caleb Gilbert and sophomore-to-be Zach Hess will emerge at the top of the pitching rotation.—
John Roach,
NOLA.com,
19 July 2017
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“User.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/user. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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