monomaniacal

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He pursued these goals with monomaniacal intensity: “Anything outside of that was a distraction.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 3, 2025

An acclaimed emeritus professor at Stanford University, White combines dogged research, superior storytelling skills and a delicious sense of irony to tell the story of the likely murder of his institution’s duplicitous and monomaniacal co-founder.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2022

Plenty of chief executives have a focus that can seem monomaniacal.

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2022

Whatever FDR’s threat, Kennedy, who had always been a monomaniacal isolationist, voiced his personal opinions without reservation, while the president was noncommittal in public.

From Washington Post • Oct. 13, 2021

Stallman's monomaniacal energies would do little to counteract the public-relations momentum of open source proponents.

From Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software by Williams, Sam