users

plural of user
as in addicts
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 users Organizations must also prioritize educating all users, from classroom teachers and administrative staff to senior leadership, on their roles. — Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2026 Many of their users describe feeling real grief when an app is updated or withdrawn. — Pascal Vrticka, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2026 According to memoryOS, users saw an average 70% increase in memory recall. — Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 4 Oct. 2026 The average user on both a sportsbook and prediction market loses money, and trying to claw back losses puts users in even deeper financial holes, experts warn. — Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 4 Oct. 2026 The kiosk provides game-like training in which users first learn about the difference between cardiac arrest and a heart attack. — Anna Zarra Aldrich, Hartford Courant, 4 Oct. 2026 On social media and online forums, some French users call the emergence of digital tipping a scam that benefits restaurants and commission-earning payment platforms more than servers. — CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2026 Jurors sided with prosecutors, finding Facebook made deceptive statements about protecting users’ data that affected New Mexico’s entire population of more than two million people. — Mikella Schuettler, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2026 To break the chains of infections stemming from contaminated needles, Soqo has proposed supplying thousands of sterile needles and syringes to communities of methamphetamine users. — David Cox, NPR, 26 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for users
addicts
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  • The problem with just arresting addicts is there’s nowhere to take them.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Outside, addicts wander peg-legged in the pulverizing triple-digit late summer heat, past attorneys in cream sport coats and copper-red ties.
    — Jeff Weiss, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2026

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“Users.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/users. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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