fixate
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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
For now, those worried about a potential AI bubble fixate on soaring equity valuations, focused primarily on rich asset prices.
From Barron's • Dec. 3, 2025
After practices, instead of thinking about plays that went right, their minds fixate on things that went wrong.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2025
First, the letter shouldn’t have been on the bottom of the screen because, as almost all eye movement research demonstrates, when it comes to television people tend to fixate on the center of the screen.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
Vocabulary lists containing fixate
Pride
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