fixate

Example Sentences

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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

The character, fixated by a particular hat in his painting, sings "all it has to be is good", the lyric quoted in the co-stars' Instagram caption.

From BBC

Homeowners are often so fixated on what will increase the value of their property that they forget they are supposed to enjoy the space, too.

From MarketWatch

Alas, children these days spend many of their waking hours indoors, fixated on screens.

From The Wall Street Journal

So why is it this one I’m fixated on?

From Los Angeles Times