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
But he cringes when anyone suggests he’s an adrenaline junkie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2024
Always an adrenaline junkie, he competed on his high school’s wrestling team and joined the Marines in 1992.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 11, 2023
Away from the cage, McKee describes himself as an "adrenaline junkie" with a passion for fast cars, shooting and snowboarding, but also a "big teddy bear, loving and softly spoken".
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2022
“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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