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obsessive

adjective as in addictive

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adjective as in haunting

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To appear in the New Yorker was his obsessive ambition from the time he first began pitching stories at the age of 13.

The American family reeled as children dwindled into crouched obsessives, scrolling and snapping and cultivating likes.

The masked murderer and obsessive stalker who haunted New York City for more than 35 years is back.

Martin’s collaborators say he’s just as obsessive, willing to “stay up literally for three days just to get a drum sound right,” according to Martin Dodd, an A&R executive who worked with the producer.

His penchant for long sentences and few paragraph breaks have also seen the writer labelled as "obsessive".

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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