fixate

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While some investors fixate on Nvidia chips or large language models such as Alphabet’s Gemini, Chintalapalli is focused on utilities, backup-power providers, and real estate—the physical infrastructure needed to support the AI boom.

From Barron's • Feb. 2, 2026

Stefan Angrick, of Moody’s Analytics, suggests investors are wrong to fixate on the headline figure of 18.3 trillion yen for the extra budget.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025

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

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