obsessions
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One of my climate obsessions, post-California, is clean indoor air, which rules out burning wood inside the house.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Rowbottom’s willingness to move toward culturally uncomfortable material is central to her work, he stressed, treating so-called lowbrow or feminine cultural obsessions not as guilty pleasures, but as material worthy of literary merit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026
This isn’t all that uncommon: Trends crop up in filmmaking all the time, as potential narratives emerge from real-life events and cultural obsessions.
From Salon ● May 25, 2026
Compulsions are the repetitive acts that can be mental or physical that the individual feels compelled to do to temporarily relieve the stress of obsessions.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
Nevertheless, at that moment he was blinded by his twin obsessions: to destroy Lyra and to possess her mother.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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