How to Use fixation in a Sentence

fixation

noun
  • That fixation has served him well.
    Claudia Rosenbaum, HollywoodReporter, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The same is true about fear of food and fixation on a certain weight.
    Jody Dushay, STAT, 19 Feb. 2026
  • What is your take on your own fixation with writing about crime?
    Victoria Namkung, Longreads, 19 Oct. 2019
  • Then there’s the tile fixation.
    Ingrid Schmidt, HollywoodReporter, 23 May 2026
  • Shifts fixation across midline (moves gaze from left to right).
    Emily Cook, Parents, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Some workers think the fixation on a high-end caffeine fix has gone too far.
    Julie Jargon, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2018
  • Trump’s golf habit was a point of fixation for his critics during his first term.
    Brett Samuels, The Hill, 19 Mar. 2025
  • For the right, the fixation on Hunter Biden boils down to a few things.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Things moved quickly, with a lot of fixation over the right ribbon and the right box.
    Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2024
  • The fixation on clubland across the pond produces a mixed bag.
    Lydia Wei, Pitchfork, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Memphis is a sudden fixation as trade winds swirl south.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
  • There’s a reason for this fixation.
    Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 18 Jan. 2026
  • That said, the idea of staying in touch with your ex has been a strange fixation for many male pop stars as of late.
    Ella Ceron, Teen Vogue, 17 Aug. 2017
  • But a fixation on the future by now goes far beyond crop cycles and long-term loans.
    Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2020
  • My leg was repaired with eight screws, a plate, and a high-strength polymer cord known as a tightrope fixation.
    Lexi Pandell, WIRED, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Trump’s fixation about coal is another of his whims of iron, like tariffs.
    Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2026
  • From the very beginning, there was a fixation on Pink’s hair.
    Benjamin Lindsay, Vanities, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Erin Vincent on grief, loss and a fixation on fourteen.
    Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
  • As the summer wanes, Jean’s fixation on David grows.
    Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Here's more about Jones' weird fixation on the skin colors of athletes.
    Bobby Burack Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 May 2026
  • Humanity’s fixation with the nut can be tracked through the ages.
    Jennifer Leman, Scientific American, 13 June 2019
  • The fixation is showing up in surgical trends as well.
    Daryl Austin, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
  • But, here in the pleasure palace of fetishes and fixations, who's counting?
    Beth Nakamura, OregonLive.com, 29 Oct. 2017
  • The longer the fixation on a word or letter, the larger and darker the circle grows.
    Lisa Wood Shapiro, WIRED, 18 June 2018
  • Thus, did the son of a walnut and vegetable farmer begin his fixation with football.
    Don Norcross, San Diego U-T Preps, 9 Sep. 2017
  • Buffalo's wing fixation helped spread the dish, but the origin story is a bit hazy.
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 28 July 2023
  • The problem arises when anger becomes a fixation and gets out of control.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
  • As the fixations grow along with the zig-zags of regressions, the screen fills with purple.
    Lisa Wood Shapiro, WIRED, 18 June 2018
  • This is why the fixation on AGI is misplaced.
    Eric Markowitz, Big Think, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The third goal of the era’s fixation on prehistory was the most selfish.
    Stefanos Geroulanos, Twin Cities, 10 Apr. 2024

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