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obsess

verb as in preoccupy

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He said at the WSJ event this week that Verizon must pivot from being focused on network engineering to being “obsessed with what customers want.”

What the film shows us, in what seems a very honest if impressionistic depiction, is that most of the world was not necessarily obsessed with rock and pop and quixotic campaigns to change the world.

“There’s a lot of folks now that are obsessed with hiding the truth from the public, and the American public needs to know,” he said.

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Quiet, unassuming, even shy, particularly in public, McSweeney is known for being obsessed by winning, constantly fearful of complacency and ever aware of Labour’s track record of losing far more often than it wins.

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“We got pretty obsessed; these are all his movies,” says Martinez Jr. with a smile holding up a stack of the director’s movies on physical media.

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