Example Sentences

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FICOCD: Obsessively checking your credit score after every transaction.

From Washington Post • Aug. 21, 2019

In one tweet on the first day of the furlough, she listed: “Got my furlough papers. Had brunch with fellow feds. Obsessively checked news and bank accounts. Contemplated a “#shutdownbeard.”

From The Guardian • Dec. 26, 2018

Obsessively questioning conventional wisdom, Lipnik starts to dissolve into the accounts he studies, until past and present are one.

From Slate • Dec. 3, 2014

Obsessively, he kept the crowd engaged, looking at him, feeding back to him — the sign of an expert skill, and also a need.

From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2012

Obsessively, in the way a person worries a rip deep in a pocket, she now reached up under the floppy hat to feel her denuded scalp for the thirtieth or fortieth time.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides