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fixate

verb as in focus

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Back in my kitchen, my eyes fixated on the birch, its yellow-brown leaves clinging to its large, twisted frame.

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On a recent episode, a 19-year-old guest observed that it seemed odd for a man his age to be so fixated on the “intricate details” of college women’s lives.

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Some think the floundering and flawed heroine, who's fixated with her weight and relationship status, is not the best role model.

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Hauser presented a few scenarios that could emerge over the coming months, but his speech fixated on the issues of higher-than-expected inflation, weak productivity growth and diminished spare capacity.

Television writers, most of whom are men, have long fixated on the perceived trauma inherent to pregnant people pushing a fully formed human from their bodies.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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