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Recent Examples of monomaniacal
Your monomaniacal focus creates your monopoly.
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Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for monomaniacal
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Prom Night Three years after an obsessed teacher killed her family, Donna Keppel has gotten her life back together enough to attend her Senior Prom.—
Caitlin White,
Variety,
3 Oct. 2025
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Why are the internet’s pop fans so obsessed?—
Anna Gaca,
Pitchfork,
1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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In a recent interview on Bloomberg TV’s Wall Street Week, Summers noted Farley isn’t fixated on a rigid notion of blue-collar jobs.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
5 Oct. 2025
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Trump heavily scapegoated trans athletes in campaign ads leading up to the 2024 election, and has remained fixated on trans rights through the first year of his second term.—
Samantha Riedel,
Them.,
3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Then a frantic 19-point rally in the closing minutes made the final score feel closer than most of the night’s action let on.—
Manny Navarro,
New York Times,
5 Oct. 2025
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Getting these fragrance gifts early comes with the benefits of beating the frantic shopping rush and winning at Christmas.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
2 Oct. 2025
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While the commercial outlook for AI among business leaders was enthusiastic, there were significant pockets of concern, extending beyond safety fears, to question the frenzied paths of investment.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Fortune,
7 Oct. 2025
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The supermodel and businesswoman, 51, has puzzled followers with frenzied TikToks about her dreams to serve Hot Ice Cream at her Australian ice cream shop, SMiZE and Dream.—
Sabrina Weiss,
PEOPLE,
7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Nobody even seems particularly surprised or distraught.—
Jennifer Gonnerman,
New Yorker,
6 Oct. 2025
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The Alvord High School science teacher, who had told her students about feeding the sick kitten to the snake, gave three other kittens to a student who was distraught about the incident.—
Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
26 Sep. 2025
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The reality, as with most things in life, is that the performance and result requires a measured response, rather than hysterical hyperbole that some are resorting to.—
Gregg Evans,
New York Times,
28 Sep. 2025
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His peace of mind doesn’t survive the first commute to work, when Alex and Dwayne nearly run over a dirty, barefoot, hysterical boy, Riley (Gage Munroe), who has escaped from TPA.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
25 Sep. 2025
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Jim Edwards InvestingMarkets Back in the ’90s a Fed chief warned about ‘irrational exuberance’ in the markets.—
Geoff Colvin,
Fortune,
30 Sep. 2025
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Those poor scientists – their federal funding has been taken away, their research programs scrapped, and their rigorous scientific findings ignored in favor of one man’s irrational, uninformed opinion.—
Rafael Perez,
Oc Register,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Monomaniacal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monomaniacal. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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