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 will also be banned from misrepresenting loot box odds, prices, and features, and will need to allow users to buy them with money instead of in-game virtual currency. Will McCurdy, PCMAG, 18 Jan. 2025 But even if the ban does go into effect, TikTok will not disappear from users' phones. Joseph Wilkinson New York Daily News (tns), arkansasonline.com, 18 Jan. 2025 Her story has garnered over 9,100 upvotes, with many users expressing their support for her actions. Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025 Attackers can use these extensions to exfiltrate browsing data, monitor user activity and even bypass security measures such as two-factor authentication. Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for user 
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Noun
  • Essay Confessions of a Self-Help Addict Haley Mlotek A self-help addict explains why.
    Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025
  • Zillow addicts and fans of the reality TV show Selling Sunset can live vicariously through rich and famous house-hunters in New York City, as Selling the City, out Jan. 3, offers a look into the apartments in sky-high buildings with sky-high price tags.
    Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 1 Jan. 2025
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  • What prompted the freak-out was Netflix’s warning that growth in the first part of 2022 would be slowing down — way down, as in nearly half of the 2021 Q1 growth.
    Vulture, Vulture, 28 Jan. 2022
  • The latest episode of the Fox first responder series saw a freak storm system wreak havoc at a carnival, particularly for a newly single dad, Trevor (Lucifer's D.B. Woodside), who had to be rescued by the 126 twice in one day.
    Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 25 Jan. 2023
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  • Delimitros said one of the truck’s side view mirrors struck her in the head, causing minor injuries.
    David Hernandez, sandiegouniontribune.com, 19 July 2017
  • 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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“User.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/user. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.

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