fixate
Example Sentences
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Instead of getting bogged down on the day-to-day of your job, and your growing disgust for it, fixate on your bigger purpose, said Nancy Ancowitz, a career strategist, and do something to nourish that.
From Barron's • Feb. 7, 2026
But Ms. McCracken does not fixate on the aesthetic of a sentence or the mechanics of plot.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
Halpern's earlier research identified a distinct pattern of electrical activity in the NAc that appears right before a person begins to fixate on food and feels the urge to binge.
From Science Daily • Dec. 8, 2025
But he has also been criticized as rigid and uncompromising, seeming to fixate only on details that point to an officer’s guilt.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 17, 2025
Those green eyes fixate on a point with such intensity that you find yourself trying to make out what she sees in the empty air.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
Vocabulary lists containing fixate
Pride
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