as in problem
something about which one is constantly thinking or concerned
her latest obsession is a movie star who she thinks is very handsome
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Recent Examples of obsession
But nothing in his tenure captures all at once the sense of arrogance, tone-deafness to the concerns of Floridians and obsession with keeping secrets.
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Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 June 2025
Our cultural obsession with thinness is a relatively recent invention, born of fashion, patriarchy, and postwar consumerism.
—Anne Marie Chaker, Time, 18 June 2025
While plenty of viewers poked fun at the viral moment, several warned that Charlie's growing obsession with his own shadow should not be encouraged.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 June 2025
Aristotle was able to see his obsessions from a scholarly remove, and to recognize that his drive to spend so much time at depth may have begotten a sort of madness.
—Matthew Gavin Frank
june 12, Literary Hub, 12 June 2025
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Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 June 2025
Our cultural obsession with thinness is a relatively recent invention, born of fashion, patriarchy, and postwar consumerism.
—Anne Marie Chaker, Time, 18 June 2025
While plenty of viewers poked fun at the viral moment, several warned that Charlie's growing obsession with his own shadow should not be encouraged.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 June 2025
Aristotle was able to see his obsessions from a scholarly remove, and to recognize that his drive to spend so much time at depth may have begotten a sort of madness.
—Matthew Gavin Frank
june 12, Literary Hub, 12 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for obsession
Noun
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The Spanish also had a problem when two tropical storms happened on the same day, however.—
Tom Brown,
Space.com,
29 June 2025
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But the most common approach to generating speech relied on synthesizing it from text, which led straight into another problem with BCI systems: very high latency.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
29 June 2025
Noun
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The dawn of the automobile age, for instance, spurred fascination with machinery, influencing designs like the cabochon spheres that evoke ball bearings in many Cartier pieces of the time.—
Jill Newman,
Robb Report,
29 June 2025
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The search for extraterrestrial life has long gone back and forth between scientific curiosity, public fascination and outright skepticism.—
Oliver Swainston,
Space.com,
28 June 2025
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Deprivation, along with a preoccupation with food, our bodies, and working out, only increases that vulnerability.—
Time,
Time,
26 June 2025
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Everything from schooling and leisure to clothes and food in the Xi household were shaped by broader preoccupations within the elite.—
Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 June 2025
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The designer is taking part in Milan Men’s Fashion Week with a daylong event on Friday that is part boutique opening and part presentation of the spring 2026 collection, rooted in fluidity and charm and built on his fixation for rebooting ’80s silhouettes.—
Martino Carrera,
Footwear News,
20 June 2025
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The withdrawn teen obsessively draws dark spiders in class and shows a disturbing fixation on news reports of school shootings.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
6 June 2025
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Jack’s fetish for suits put me in mind of his early experience grading spinach.—
Cree LeFavour,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
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Her videos will aim to appeal to those with hair fetishes.—
Zack Sharf,
Variety,
10 Mar. 2025
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There’s a quiet mania about people like Stephen A., who work both morning and late shifts, on the same days.—
Danyel Smith,
Rolling Stone,
18 June 2025
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The resentment that artists feel about the act of laundering their patron’s cultural cache has been around at least as long as the Greeks were dealing with Alcibiades, but Mac brings a pleasurably vicious mania to this particular play-as-tirade.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
13 June 2025
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Late last week, some influential Democrats were saying that Lamont’s enthusiasm for his chief regulator may have cooled after PURA conceded destruction of the text messages.—
Edmund H. Mahony,
Hartford Courant,
29 June 2025
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Throughout, the cast of 17 exudes an unmistakable enthusiasm for the material, the onstage electricity radiating up the alpine slopes of the Guthrie’s expansive Wurtele Thrust.—
Rob Hubbard,
Twin Cities,
28 June 2025
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