obsession
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His obsession began aged nine while watching fellow Dutchman Peter Aerts win a world title - the very hero Verhoeven would eventually defeat years later.
From BBC • May 22, 2026
Ethicist Carissa Véliz warns that our societal obsession with predictions is ruining democracy.
From Slate • May 8, 2026
If this all sounds like overkill—the continuous monitoring, the obsession with biometrics, the overwhelming amount of data—then these trackers aren’t for you.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
The episodes will focus on the interview subject’s compulsion to create, an obsession for Mason who grew up with a stepfather who was a portrait artist.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
The Lowell Observatory, as you will recall, was a bit of an oddity thanks to Percival Lowell’s obsession with Martian canals, which in the 1910s made it, in every sense, an outpost of astronomical endeavor.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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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