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- noun Plural form of
junkie orjunky .
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Examples
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Just political junkies from the Left and the Right who both used it to slam the president.
Matthew Yglesias » Franken Hits Obama Over CSPAN Promise 2010
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Two weeks (!) separate political junkies from the end of one of the most fascinating midterm elections in modern memory.
The final 14 days: Reports from the field! Chris Cillizza 2010
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Lala: Assuming that all heroin junkies mainline it is probably the most harmful stereotypes in society today.
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The sense that these regions have become 'aid junkies' is very strong.
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The sense that these regions have become 'aid junkies' is very strong.
Archive 2008-07-06 2008
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Defense attorney Rick Beuke fired back that it was the government's witnesses – five men he called junkies, pathological liars and career criminals – who weren't telling the truth.
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But I suspect what you mean by adventure junkies is readers primarily (or solely) interested in the heroic genres within strange fiction -- readers of Space Opera or Epic Fantasy -- rather than readers primarily (or solely) interested in the symbolic formulation sold within those genres.
Archive 2007-03-01 Hal Duncan 2007
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But I suspect what you mean by adventure junkies is readers primarily (or solely) interested in the heroic genres within strange fiction -- readers of Space Opera or Epic Fantasy -- rather than readers primarily (or solely) interested in the symbolic formulation sold within those genres.
More Aesthetics Hal Duncan 2007
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He appears to have spawned a new generation of politically minded endorphin junkies eager to push their physical limits as strenuously as they pursue their political careers — many of them, in fact, with an eye to replacing Bush.
Marathon Men 2005
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He appears to have spawned a new generation of politically minded endorphin junkies eager to push their physical limits as strenuously as they pursue their political careers — many of them, in fact, with an eye to replacing Bush.
Marathon Men 2005
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