fix on/upon
phrasal verb
fixed on/upon; fixing on/upon; fixes on/upon
1
: to direct one's attention or thoughts toward (something) : to focus on (something)
He has fixed on/upon the idea of going back to school.
All eyes fixed on her as she entered the room.
2
: to make a decision about or choose (something)
After weeks of discussion, they've finally fixed on a solution.
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Lang’s screenplay charts that ascent while maintaining a fix on the chain-smoking, workaholic protagonist’s mental and physical health.
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Dennis Harvey, Variety, 9 Jan. 2025
Oasis reported the flaw to Microsoft, which confirmed the vulnerability on June 24 and deployed a permanent fix on Oct. 9.
—Davey Winder, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
The data protection supervisor for the city-state of Hamburg, Johannes Caspar, accused Google of sniffing some network data, like the Service Set Identifier (SSID) and the Media Access Control (MAC) addresses, to help the company keep a better fix on locations for its Web products.
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 May 2010
The man says his roommate's constant reliance on him for basic tech help is 'driving him nuts'
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A man is sharing his frustrations with his roommate's technological inabilities after repeatedly helping him with basic computer issues that the roommate refuses to learn to fix on his own.
—Tabitha Parent, People.com, 10 Dec. 2024
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Dennis Harvey, Variety, 9 Jan. 2025
Oasis reported the flaw to Microsoft, which confirmed the vulnerability on June 24 and deployed a permanent fix on Oct. 9.
—Davey Winder, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
The data protection supervisor for the city-state of Hamburg, Johannes Caspar, accused Google of sniffing some network data, like the Service Set Identifier (SSID) and the Media Access Control (MAC) addresses, to help the company keep a better fix on locations for its Web products.
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 May 2010
The man says his roommate's constant reliance on him for basic tech help is 'driving him nuts'
Comments
A man is sharing his frustrations with his roommate's technological inabilities after repeatedly helping him with basic computer issues that the roommate refuses to learn to fix on his own.
—Tabitha Parent, People.com, 10 Dec. 2024
See All Example Sentences for fix on/upon
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“Fix on/upon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fix%20on%2Fupon. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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