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Adjective
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Shooters who target children in these attacks tend to be young, isolated, depressed and angry individuals who become obsessed with previous slayings that have generated extensive news coverage.—
Ernesto Londoño,
Twin Cities,
1 Sep. 2025 -
And one of her own star graduate students is so obsessed with her that even Frederik points it out with annoyance.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Alaska State Troopers arrested Smith about 16 miles from the city of Kiana, and law enforcement officials interviewed in the doc say he was fixated on iñukuns.—
Olivia B. Waxman,
Time,
4 Sep. 2025
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Few players are more fixated on the upcoming WNBA free-agency cycle than Angel Reese.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Tasha Williams, mom to a freshman student, said her daughter called about the shooter, frantic and searching for her friend.—
Katie Langford,
Boston Herald,
13 Sep. 2025
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Laura is frantic about saving Daniel after learning Cherry pushed her father from a construction site, fracturing his spine in two places.—
Erin Jensen,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The musical’s propulsive rock score and frenzied choreography reflects the teens’ inner turmoil.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Sep. 2025
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Some luxury brands regularly release limited editions to spark consumer frenzy, but the ultra rich are never frenzied.—
Lilian Raji,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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As police secured the area with crime scene tape, distraught family members began arriving at the scene late Sunday night, according to police dispatch audio.—
Doc Louallen,
ABC News,
8 Sep. 2025
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The mother thanked officers and ran from the apartment, distraught and inconsolable.—
Kristi Miller,
Twin Cities,
6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Prior to their reanimation by Hope and her magic contract, the Tappers are in a state of almost-hysterical obsolescence.—
James Parker,
The Atlantic,
12 Sep. 2025
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This sort of rhetoric only adds to the hysterical nature of contemporary politics, giving respectability to uncivilized behavior.—
The Editorial Board,
Oc Register,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Losing Fed independence is like giving free rein to emotional, irrational decision making.—
Hersh Shefrin,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Maura’s performance makes Maria Angeles so magnetic and eccentric — earthily practical on some matters, dizzily irrational on others, and sympathetically true to herself on all fronts — that all the film’s other players want for detail and texture by comparison.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Monomaniacal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monomaniacal. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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