preoccupation
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Hungarians’ preoccupation with inflation, health and household budgeting tracks with the norm in most European countries.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
Horror has long been a preoccupation for Boston.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026
Her preoccupation with her students and her young son leaves Dick feeling alienated and lonely.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026
The jobs report may overshadow the market’s recent preoccupation on just how much artificial intelligence will damage the growth prospects for software and other industries.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 11, 2026
The key value that took the place of credulous piety was politeness, which was the great preoccupation of writers in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing preoccupation
"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury
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