preoccupation

Example Sentences

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Horror has long been a preoccupation for Boston.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 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 peculiar alchemy that causes us to click with some people and not with others—romantically or platonically—has been a preoccupation of poets for centuries, but it has only recently drawn the attention of scientists.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

I would have leaped to collaborate with her on any project, but fortunately nuclear Armageddon is also a preoccupation of mine.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025

To live in a world where men do not love, where they cheat and are callous, is to sink into a preoccupation with death, and to see the futility of anything except virtue.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin