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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who is subject to agoraphobia.

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  • noun Someone who suffers from agoraphobia.

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Examples

  • Starting something new seems the opposite of my natural in-a-writing-funk instinct, which is essentially to become a laptop-wielding agoraphobe.

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Branching Out 2009

  • If you don't like the weather in New England, wait a minute, it will change. perhaps it's the agoraphobe in me, but I just love being snowed in.

    Archive 2008-01-01 2008

  • Writer Toby Whithousespent more than a year working intermittently on a drama about three roommates: a sex addict, an agoraphobe and a guy with anger-management issues.

    Monster Mash 2009

  • Any of these love stories submitted to a modern-day advice columnist would come back with a diagnosis of troubling pathologies: co-dependent adulterers, a sexually frustrated agoraphobe, a battered wife.

    More Amour Meghan Cox Gurdon 2009

  • I kinda aced a task today is all; am a recovering agoraphobe and did a four-hour round trip from here to downhell and back without once bursting into tears or hiding in the vegetable aisles; so, mebbe this sorta explains the glowjob?

    Thank you, Dave ... Frank Wilson 2008

  • A borderline agoraphobe who's picked on by his seven sisters, he lives alone in a sterile Valley apartment, is prone to sudden violent outbursts of rage and is obsessed with his scheme to acquire 1.5 million frequent-flier miles by buying Healthy Choice pudding.

    Call Him Unhappy Gilmore 2007

  • You know, I think I was in danger of becoming agoraphobe.

    CNN Transcript Jan 15, 2006 2006

  • KING: Was he one of those people -- agoraphobe, like what ...

    CNN Transcript Jul 9, 2002 2002

  • I don't have any skin in the game-I don't like outdoor concerts, because I'm an agoraphobe-so I'm even more eh about Pop Pitchfork.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • I don't have any skin in the game-I don't like outdoor concerts, because I'm an agoraphobe-so I'm even more eh about Pop Pitchfork.

    Chicago Reader 2010

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