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The phrase "addicted to something" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a strong dependence or compulsive behavior towards a particular substance, activity, or habit.
Example: "She realized she was addicted to social media, spending hours scrolling through her feed every day."
Alternatives: "dependent on something" or "hooked on something".
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Probably the fact that addiction includes a very strong compulsive property, so when people have been addicted to something for some period of time, the psychological process moves from impulse to compulsion.
Millions of British people are addicted to something they call "the boob tube".
Shinran would say, it might not be love that you're addicted to - but you're addicted to SOMETHING.
When you're addicted to something, you're obviously biased in favour of arguments suggesting it's unrealistic to quit.
So I'm evidently addicted, but at least for the first time in my life I'm addicted to something good.
The risk of getting more people addicted to something relatively harmless is well worth taking, given the opportunity for curbing dramatically the world's single-most-harmful voluntary activity.
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Both men come off as ironic figures, incapable of fully grasping all the facets of the problems they're facing but addicted to doing something and trying to make their mark.
Admit it: If you were Lindsay Lohan, you'd probably have acid reflux too, because girlfriend said she's also addicted to chaos, something she picked up early in life.
This is, I think, what these sites evoke: the feeling of being addicted to longing for something; specifically being addicted to the feeling that something is missing or incomplete.
The narrator seems almost addicted to metaphysical prouncouncements ("Something invisible had disappeared, but it left a mark. There was always a mark". "Frank began to suspect that often what vanished revealed more than what remained") but their baldness diminishes their impact.
As a doctor, what do you say to a patient who may become addicted to Botox or something else, possibly to his or her own detriment?
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