fixation
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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
He has performed this exact procedure on dozens of patients, notably those whose symmetry goals have become an obvious fixation.
From Slate • Feb. 22, 2026
He couldn’t begin to comprehend, now, how far off the track he was with his baptismal fixation.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
Vocabulary lists containing fixation
Psychology
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