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obsessive

[uhb-ses-iv] / əbˈsɛs ɪv /
ADJECTIVE
addictive
Synonyms
WEAK
enslaving hooking














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Yet it keeps winning new and obsessive admirers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Yet tailoring is also one of fashion’s great luxuries — an intimate, almost obsessive process of shaping cloth around the body.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

The writing grows spiraling and obsessive as it develops each possibility.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

In his opening address on Monday, prosecutor Brett Hatfield SC described how Lamarre-Condon had developed an "obsessive and jealous infatuation" with Baird after a brief romantic relationship.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

But she began to see his desperate and relentless focus on her as something closer to obsessive need than love.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson


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