newsaholic

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noun

One who is obsessed with news; a person who likes to stay up-to-date with news.

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Meanings

nounnewsaholic (plural newsaholics)

plural newsaholics

  1. One who is obsessed with news; a person who likes to stay up-to-date with news.
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    A third-grader in Bristol, Maine, recalled the shock of seeing his “hard-boiled” teacher weeping as she delivered the bad news to her class, and he attributed his later fascination with politics and history to that single weekend in November 1963. “I've been a newsaholic ever since,” said Norm Chase thirty-five years later.

    2013, Alice L. George, The Assassination of John F. Kennedy: Political Trauma and American Memory, Routledge, →ISBN, pages 98–99

Origin

From news + -aholic.

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APA

newsaholic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/newsaholic

MLA

“newsaholic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/newsaholic. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “newsaholic,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/newsaholic.

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