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as in ripped
being under the influence of a recreational drug
the young actor, in his first comic role, plays a stoned slacker
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as in drunk
being under the influence of alcohol
his alcohol tolerance was low enough that one glass of champagne could get him stoned
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Recent Examples of stoned
Pitchfork, 30 Sep. 2025
Yet for all of his stoned foolishness, Bob has clearly imparted a real distrust of authority to his kid.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2025
Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2026
Dostál stoned Demidov on a breakaway with under seven minutes to go to preserve that lead through 40 minutes.
—Andrew Knoll, Oc Register, 7 Mar. 2026
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Adjective
Pac’s sense of self was more expansive than ever; stoned hangout raps could co-exist alongside sneering disses and thunderous Judgment Day diatribes.
—Pitchfork, 30 Sep. 2025
Yet for all of his stoned foolishness, Bob has clearly imparted a real distrust of authority to his kid.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
Fast forward 16 years, and members are in hiding in a sanctuary city in the forests of Northern California while life goes on for everyone else in the form of proms and getting stoned.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2026
Dostál stoned Demidov on a breakaway with under seven minutes to go to preserve that lead through 40 minutes.
—Andrew Knoll, Oc Register, 7 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stoned
Adjective
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Brushes, pens and pencils lie next to the ripped cuffs of cotton workshirts, and drops of blue and white paint are splattered on the floor, extending the artwork beyond the wall.—
Leigh-Ann Jackson,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Feb. 2026
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The dirt didn’t look different to her: no holes, no ripped piece of lawn, but was there something growing in the mud glop?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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When Robby races into the room, our drunk country clubber is being restrained, and his nose is bleeding.—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
27 Mar. 2026
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Meet Keoma Duarte, age 41, accused of vehicular homicide of a local cop while driving drunk.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
22 Mar. 2026
Verb
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The commercial logic behind high-resolution restoration has sharpened considerably as streaming platforms have come to depend on catalogue depth.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
1 Apr. 2026
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The declassified materials have sharpened scrutiny of how the 2017 intelligence assessment document was produced in the final weeks of the Obama administration, when senior intelligence officials were shaping conclusions about Russian election interference.—
Kaelan Deese,
The Washington Examiner,
1 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Both Prinstein and Nagata say that the default privacy setting for minors should be set so that their data is not shared with other companies, and isn't used to personalize content that can keep them hooked to social media for extended periods of time.—
Carmel Wroth,
NPR,
27 Mar. 2026
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Cast your mind back to summer 2019, a pre-Covid era when we were all hooked on Euphoria season one and the high school exploits of protagonist Rue, played by a scruffy Zendaya, all basketball shorts and tangled hair.—
Olivia Allen,
Vogue,
17 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Meis moves from the Baroque virtuosity of Rubens’s study of a drunken mythological figure, through the jagged modernist puzzle of Marc’s allegorical animals, to Mitchell’s painterly abstractions and their flickering landscape allusions.—
Jed Perl,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
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Take Jackie, who comes into the ER after a drunken accident.—
Jonathan Hunt-Glassman,
Fortune,
2 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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More importantly, Slaughter expanded her game, operating more in the post, rebounding at a higher level and continuing to handle the ball effectively.—
Aaron Segal,
Kansas City Star,
4 Apr. 2026
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Those who leave earlier — by May 31 — are eligible for the highest financial incentive.—
Ivan Taylor,
CBS News,
4 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Being from the Cape Fear coast of North Carolina, nothing epitomizes comfort food to me more than fried fish.—
Andre James,
Charlotte Observer,
23 Mar. 2026
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The lineup includes steaks, shrimp, fried chicken, soups, breakfast dishes, salads and more.—
Richard Guzman,
Daily News,
18 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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When these work together, firms may reduce wasted spend, improve lead quality, and stabilize case flow.—
William Jones,
USA Today,
24 Feb. 2026
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No doubling back, no wasted time zigzagging across the city.—
Lauren Schuster,
Kansas City Star,
23 Feb. 2026
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“Stoned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stoned. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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