preoccupation

The preoccupation with sizes, in particular, was something many international fans remarked about when interviewed by the BBC about their reflections on visiting America.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026

"People taking these drugs for obesity often describe a quieting of 'food noise,' the persistent preoccupation with food that drives overeating," Al-Aly said.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 3, 2026

So what’s the catalyst for his noteworthy preoccupation with masculinity and all these archetypal characters who embody its antiquated themes?

From Salon ● May 27, 2026

Horror has long been a preoccupation for Boston.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026

Arnauld’s preoccupation with the fact developed out of the great dispute over whether Jansenism, of which Arnauld was the leading light, was heretical.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

With “Olmo,” in theaters Friday, Eimbcke has adapted his career-long interest on the youth’s preoccupations to a story on this side of the Mexico-U.S. border for the first time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

An ally of the prime minister tells me for several months those have been No 10's preoccupations.

From BBC ● May 16, 2026

But in demonstrating, if inadvertently, that even he couldn’t escape what Mr. Oliver calls the “obsessions, preoccupations, and mental loops that grip us so tightly,” the psychologist provided an important service.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026

Instead, Mr. Oliver suggests, among other things, meditation and yoga, explaining how these Eastern practices can help up transcend our personal preoccupations and loosen the constraints of the ego’s self-obsession.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026

Given to mystical preoccupations, this android proposed the group escape attempt, underwriting it ideologically with a pretentious fiction as to the sacredness of so-called android “life.”

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick