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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
  • Others block entire afternoons for their obsession.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
  • And on the high-school football team, the comedian remembers trying to pass off his pop-star obsessions as pure, red-blooded machismo.
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 17 May 2025
Noun
  • That reputation foreshadows the series’ fetish for both-sidesism and centrist consensus, at one point explicitly equating the right’s embrace of blatant untruths with the left’s enthusiasm for pronouns.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 20 Feb. 2025
  • If that fetish somehow didn’t already exist, Cronenberg likely created it with Crash.
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Dedra becomes an object of his fixation about power.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 9 May 2025
  • The Incoherent Case for Tariffs Trump’s fixation on economic coercion will subvert his economic goals.
    Antony J. Blinken, Foreign Affairs, 6 May 2025

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“Idée fixe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/id%C3%A9e%20fixe. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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