fixed idea
Example Sentences
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Vallejo also dedicated three summers to the caddie program, getting up early, enduring the heat and carrying heavy bags, always with a fixed idea in mind.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2025
Getting a new view on someone I had such a fixed idea of who or want he was, and this is a way of understanding that.
From Salon • Jul. 6, 2023
But “love of my life” is a fixed idea, and people are fluid, updating themselves over time.
From Washington Post • Jan. 10, 2023
Over the course of her career, her albums — including those with the trio Pistol Annies — have become looser, more curious, less married to a fixed idea of the genre.
From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2019
R. M. Renfield, ætat 59.—Sanguine temperament; great physical strength; morbidly excitable; periods of gloom, ending in some fixed idea which I cannot make out.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.