fixation
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Given his fixation with the stock market, he may now turn his attention elsewhere.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
The book trend cover suggests collective angst about adulthood, highlighted by a cultural fixation on “girlhood” that sparked a spate of online think pieces in recent years.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026
It became a point of fixation for audiences who'd taken to hyper-analysing actor Jacob Elordi's portrayal of the tortured anti-hero opposite Margot Robbie as his lover Cathy.
From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026
The sea-sourced shining star doesn’t just look good, it has become a fixation.
From Salon • Feb. 28, 2026
She’d never even imagined doing it herself, and for all of her sister’s fixation on kissing, she’d never imagined her doing it, either.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
Vocabulary lists containing fixation
Psychology
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Vocabulary from Readings 2, Unit 2
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