fixation
Example Sentences
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Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, speaking at Cactus League media day earlier this month, said the fixation on the money spent makes people miss the things they do well.
From Los Angeles Times
When a promotion affords her a workspace, she cultivates a fixation with paperweights, which help keep her daydreaming grounded.
It took coming out and years of evaluating my gender identity to uncover the question stirring at the root of my fixation: Do I want Augustus Waters, or do I want to be Augustus Waters?
From Salon
From the moment of his birth, mere weeks after his father was elected president, the son of John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy was a national fixation.
From Los Angeles Times
But he fumbles with the fixation on Los Angeles wellness culture.
From Los Angeles Times
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