USERS Synonyms: 19 Similar and Opposite Words

users

noun

plural of user

as in addicts

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 users That presents a continuity conundrum for users entering the several miles of the High Line Canal trail that lie inside Cherry Hills Village. — John Aguilar, Denver Post, 11 Aug. 2026 Police investigating a bank robbery had used a type of warrant to obtain anonymized location records for phones near the bank, narrowed the list based on their movements and eventually obtained the names of several users. — Nicole M. Bennett, The Conversation, 11 Aug. 2026 In the coming months, users will also have the ability to report artist profiles as potential AI personas. — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2026 The Wonderful Company, one of California’s largest agricultural companies, is one of the top users of paraquat in the state, according to an analysis of state pesticide use records from the Environmental Working Group. — Lizzie Kane, Sacbee.com, 11 Aug. 2026 Even then, DBSCs are turned on only for a limited set of users. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 11 Aug. 2026 The report notes the area is known by detectives to be a high crime area with multiple stray dogs and wandering drug users. — Rafael Escalera Montoto, Arkansas Online, 5 Aug. 2026 On Tuesday, social media feeds were flooded with users shocked after allegedly witnessing celebrity blogger Perez Hilton live-streaming acts of self-harm on TikTok. — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2026 According to Cohen, the internet has long been constructed around HTML web pages, which are designed to be intuitive for both users and developers. — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2026

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addicts

Noun

Many ex-addicts turn to religion, exchanging one inflexible code for another; John’s own post-heroin spiritual exercises were omnivorous.

— Ian Penman, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026
Most of the dealers and suppliers who worked with Brun were addicts themselves, feeding an island ravaged by meth addiction since the 1980s.

— Guthrie Scrimgeour, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2026

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