fixation
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This knowledge supplies his screenplay with a sturdy base on which he crafts his story of parasocial fixation and all its consequences.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
Excelling at work and yardwork fits the modern professional’s fixation on optimizing everything.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
The mere fact that markets returned to their AI fixation on Monday suggests last week’s talk of a near-term pullback seems premature.
From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026
Detective Peter Doomanis of the Los Angeles Police Department said in his declaration, filed with Carpenter's petition, that he believes the man has "developed a disturbing and irrational fixation on petitioner".
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
But Milo was deaf and kept pushing forward, nonviolently but irresistibly, sweating, his eyes, as though he were in the grip of a blind fixation, burning feverishly, and his twitching mouth slavering.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Donabedian says he’s always watching for Wall Street fixations that move to the back-burner.
From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026
The author’s financial fixations permeate every page of the book.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026
López designed “Night Country” to meditate on women’s fixations, obsessions, insecurities and fears.
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2024
It’s a movie for people who really dig Cronenberg’s mulchy fixations — and probably for no one else.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
Complaining about Kunu Yaku was just another of the Doctorita’s little fixations, I realized, like knitting Baby Jesus dresses and fretting about thieves and wor- rying about her boys catching germs.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
Vocabulary lists containing fixation
Psychology
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