as in obsession
something about which one is constantly thinking or concerned
their weight is an unfortunate fixation for many teenagers
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Recent Examples of fixation
Rush had a fixation on making the carbon fiber work, which had deadly consequences.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fixation
obsession
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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
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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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