fixation
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What better way to comment on film-star fixation than to repeat the image of Marilyn Monroe, drawn from a publicity photo, 50 times?
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 20, 2026
Vance has also begun talking about belief in demons, which, in America at least, is more of an evangelical fixation than a Catholic one.
From Salon • Jun. 15, 2026
They’re interested in the wave of new stock market listings, many tied in some way to Wall Street’s fixation with all things AI, and the back-and-forth between Washington and Tehran about the war.
From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026
Others spread until every member of a population carries them, a process known as fixation.
From Science Daily • May 29, 2026
The men in particular had showed a fixation on hunting animals that, in Penelope’s worst imaginings, nearly threatened to encompass the “wild wolf children” Lord Fredrick had bragged about finding on his property.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
Vocabulary lists containing fixation
Psychology
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Vocabulary from Readings 2, Unit 2
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