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
The company plans to study differences between new and experienced users and test whether specific interventions can improve AI fluency over time.
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Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2026
Parents and safety advocates have for years raised concerns that social media platforms are designed to get users hooked and keep them scrolling for as long as possible to serve them more ads.
—Cnn, Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2026
Russia is intensifying efforts to push users away from foreign messaging apps and toward a domestic platform that has been criticized as a surveillance tool.
—Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2026
Those apps have age verification procedures to require users are at least the minimum age under applicable state laws, with states that have legalized sports betting setting 18 or 21 as the minimum age.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 24 Feb. 2026
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Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2026
Parents and safety advocates have for years raised concerns that social media platforms are designed to get users hooked and keep them scrolling for as long as possible to serve them more ads.
—Cnn, Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2026
Russia is intensifying efforts to push users away from foreign messaging apps and toward a domestic platform that has been criticized as a surveillance tool.
—Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2026
Those apps have age verification procedures to require users are at least the minimum age under applicable state laws, with states that have legalized sports betting setting 18 or 21 as the minimum age.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 24 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for user
addict
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On June 16, 1986, Langford was selling some of the last of her inventory when a crack addict named Melvin Trotter walked into Langford's Grocery Store and started stealing from the cash register.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
24 Feb. 2026
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Their defence lawyers portrayed some as childhood victims of abuse, others as addicts.—
Gaby Wood,
Vogue,
21 Feb. 2026
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“User.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/user. Accessed 26 Feb. 2026.
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