fixate

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After shelling out for college and amassing years of experience, it is natural to fixate on jobs in your one field to justify those investments.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 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

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