obsession

Example Sentences

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What’s going on with the obsession with reviving archaic occupations, like learning from artisans fixing old shoes?

From Slate • Apr. 4, 2026

If companies beat targets and issue solid guidance, it should ease the market’s obsession with oil and set the stage for a recovery.

From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026

The friends attribute their obsession to nostalgia for childhood—when they first watched it—and the simple charm of ’90s New York.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

It said the company's actions may have helped fuel so-called "cosmeticorexia" - an unhealthy obsession with skincare in young people experts believe may be on the rise.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

I’d elbowed his chest, a warning not to encourage my mom’s obsession for embarrassing costumes.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas