obsession
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Hayat, now 23, admitted his crime in July, saying he had developed a one-sided obsession with Yousaf after some interactions online.
From BBC • May 20, 2026
Ethicist Carissa Véliz warns that our societal obsession with predictions is ruining democracy.
From Slate • May 8, 2026
“The obsession with this very narrow corner of the market, this $2 trillion slice of levered lending, is, frankly, a failure of imagination,” Rowan sad.
From Barron's • May 7, 2026
Monitoring and improving credit scores has become something of a national obsession.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026
“We’re not the ones with an obsession, Harry! We’re the ones trying to do what Dumbledore wanted us to do!”
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
Vocabulary lists containing obsession
Vocabulary from an excerpt from "Confessions of a 30-Year-Old Gamer," by Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates
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