fixate

Example Sentences

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When Don Toliver set out to make his new album “Octane,” the rapper was first fixated on Los Angeles’ San Gabriel Mountains.

From Los Angeles Times

Coal was fixated on all the ways their plan could go wrong.

From Literature

I’d noticed the impact of technology on my attention but I’d always thought of myself as overly focused, fixated on things even.

From The Wall Street Journal

But perhaps there is something in the idea of, instead of fixating on the rollercoaster of symptoms, considering the bigger picture.

From BBC

For McCallum, it's the insight into the reality of fame that explains why so many people are fixated by this row.

From BBC