monomaniac

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for monomaniac
Adjective
  • Your monomaniacal focus creates your monopoly.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • In the show, Hartley is a 15-year-old girl from a nearby town whom Gein becomes obsessed with, abducts and later kills.
    Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 9 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • Writer-director Andrew DeYoung’s Friendship, which cast him as a lonely guy who befriends, alienates, then becomes fixated on a cool neighbor (Paul Rudd), has some great moments but falters midway through due to a predictable plot.
    Judy Berman, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The idea of clothes — especially expensive clothes — looking good on the wearer shouldn’t be a novel idea, yet recent years have seen some designers become fixated with expressing artistic creativity or generating shock value, rather than designing for wider appeal.
    Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The two superstars continued to trade moves with one another in a frantic finish.
    Matthew Couden, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
  • So the frantic pace of decision-making today risks locking in emissions tomorrow; some of Melka’s data center clients are happy to run on gas or even diesel generators and save their sustainability goals for some other time.
    Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 17 Oct. 2025
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“Monomaniac.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monomaniac. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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