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Recent Examples of fixation Rush had a fixation on making the carbon fiber work, which had deadly consequences. Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 11 June 2025 Trump’s fixation with Xi and a potential sweeping economic deal has been a prominent public feature of his first and second terms in the White House, often to the chagrin of his most hardline advisors. Phil Mattingly, CNN Money, 9 May 2025 Part of what makes Robinson’s Netflix show so consistently hilarious is the way his characters double down on the wrong reaction, turn minor fixations into all-consuming obsessions, escalate their anger to overthrow a situation’s over-the-top absurdity. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2025 Silicon Valley’s visionaries are, in this view, not all cold rationalists; many of them are dreamers and believers whose fixations constitute, in Becker’s view, a spiritual narrative as much as a scientific one—a new theology of technology. John Kaag, The Atlantic, 28 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for fixation
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fixation
obsession
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

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“Fixation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fixation. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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