preoccupation

Example Sentences

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He has turned the subject of being Israeli into a career-long preoccupation, approached with a sense of queasiness.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

This preoccupation resurfaces at Regen in a large-scale print of 2023’s “Flight Honolulu to Guam,” revealing a star field above the clouds.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026

Obtaining dollars to buy raw materials like oil, flour or rice to then refine and process became Kazin’s chief preoccupation.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 8, 2026

The U.S.-China “electron gap,” as OpenAI now calls it, has become a major preoccupation for American tech leaders.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025

Among the hearing’s more sinister features was its preoccupation with an encounter between Oppenheimer and his friend Haakon Chevalier just before work began at Los Alamos.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik