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Recent Examples of idée fixe This is perhaps why their partnership remains an idee fixe so many decades later. Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for idée fixe
Noun
  • The senate’s habitual obsession with women as a threat (to conquest, power, imperial security, male dignity) cannot be overstated.
    Literary Hub June 23, Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
  • Melissa Benoist stars as Nicole, whose romantic relationship with Andrew (Miles Teller) is fractured because of Andrew’s obsession with drumming in writer-director Damien Chazelle’s psychological drama Whiplash.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025
Noun
  • Jack’s fetish for suits put me in mind of his early experience grading spinach.
    Cree LeFavour, New York Times, 30 May 2025
  • Her videos will aim to appeal to those with hair fetishes.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 10 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The designer is taking part in Milan Men’s Fashion Week with a daylong event on Friday that is part boutique opening and part presentation of the spring 2026 collection, rooted in fluidity and charm and built on his fixation for rebooting ’80s silhouettes.
    Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 20 June 2025
  • The withdrawn teen obsessively draws dark spiders in class and shows a disturbing fixation on news reports of school shootings.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 June 2025

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“Idée fixe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/id%C3%A9e%20fixe. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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