preoccupy
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That, along with the Knicks players' return from San Antonio, will preoccupy this city with basketball for a few more days.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
“If the Iran situation lingers, it will preoccupy more and more of Congress’ time,” said Stifel Chief Washington Strategist Brian Gardner.
From Barron's ● Mar. 3, 2026
What will preoccupy us in a century, fuel our ambitions and stir our fears, will probably be something we can’t even imagine today.
From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2025
Numbers don’t preoccupy me as much as they did my father, but I still find them fascinating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
Of course, the dreams that I had during my illness continued to preoccupy me.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
This season, an event of global significance preoccupies the nuns and nurses of Nonnatus House: Their branch office in Hong Kong has fallen into the street.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
This is a really critical piece that preoccupies me: what that does to our ability to organize and be in solidarity.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2023
It's an issue that preoccupies the German government too.
From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2022
This sort of shift in institutional thinking preoccupies Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, who was recently named the Peabody Essex Museum’s first female director in its 221-year history.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2021
What preoccupies me is immediate: the separation I endure with my parents in loss.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
If anything, the upper crust have more time to be artistic — less preoccupied with getting a job and making a living.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
But behind the staged virility lies a ruler unusually preoccupied with bodily decline.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Schlamminger skipped the conference's morning sessions, preoccupied with worries about temperature fluctuations, pressure changes, and other tiny effects that might distort the results.
From Science Daily ● May 18, 2026
In such cases, the creatures may be unaware of the dangers because they are preoccupied, for example, by feeding, she said.
From Barron's ● May 11, 2026
“I would normally be quite glad to make your acquaintance, but I happen to be a bit preoccupied at the moment.”
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
With the use of personal data by AI models preoccupying authorities, particularly in Europe, Berners-Lee has made data protection his main cause in recent years, notably through the startup Inrupt.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
An unremarkable-looking plan for a new factory in Poland cuts to the heart of big questions that are preoccupying governments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
“What is preoccupying my brain, my everything, is just the fear of what’s going to happen next,” he said in an interview.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 2023
Whatever is getting you down or preoccupying you, you can't be thinking about that when you're birding.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2023
As worrying as the family’s financial state was to Regina, her concerns about Bobby’s mental health, personality, and behavior eventually became preoccupying.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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