Definitions
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
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Starting something new seems the opposite of my natural in-a-writing-funk instinct, which is essentially to become a laptop-wielding agoraphobe.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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You know, I think I was in danger of becoming agoraphobe.
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KING: Was he one of those people -- agoraphobe, like what ...
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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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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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