obsession

This was a trial run of the Super Age Games, a contest that gamifies our culture’s growing obsession with extending well-being deep into our silver years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Once he had his foot in the door as an intern, success became an obsession, with bonuses becoming "a way of gauging how wonderfully successful a human being I was".

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

It’s about his obsession with “Minecraft,” the immensely popular video sandbox game that takes place in a world of 3D cubes representing raw materials such as wood, ores, stone and dirt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

And yet, Sephora and other cosmetic retailers love that their obsession with anti-aging begins in their teens and 20s.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026

And the joy and obsession he’s had with his computer.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

One of my climate obsessions, post-California, is clean indoor air, which rules out burning wood inside the house.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The rediscovery of Homer, alien obsessions, a novel of the Roman Republic’s fall and more.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

This isn’t all that uncommon: Trends crop up in filmmaking all the time, as potential narratives emerge from real-life events and cultural obsessions.

From Salon ● May 25, 2026

I am growing to love Jane Schoenbrun’s exfoliation of ’80s horror obsessions, especially for the movie’s nonjudgmental embrace: Let these movies be free in all their “problematic” badness and let them work on you.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026

But researchers are apt to lose sight of whom they are writing for, and narcissistically describe the obsessions of their guild rather than what the audience really wants to know.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker