adrenaline junkie
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The actress plays an outdoors-loving adrenaline junkie harassed by a group of hunters in director Baltasar Kormákur’s spectacular, unsettling film.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
Kosinski doesn’t present as your average adrenaline junkie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025
What, other than motorcycle riding, stimulates that adrenaline junkie in you?
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2024
Stephanie Ford said her dry-witted adrenaline junkie husband, Wesley Ford, had nightmares of waking up in a coffin and hated the idea of being buried and his body decaying.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2023
“If you throw yourself into danger for no reason again, you will have become nothing more than a Dauntless adrenaline junkie looking for a hit, and I’m not going to help you do it.”
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
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