as in fascinations
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 obsessions
My obsessions surrounding her care, health, and well-being were funneled into a compulsive use of the app.
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Sara Rowe Mount, Parents, 22 May 2026
Her interviews from that moment, triggered by the obsessions of bombers Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, would later be chronicled at the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum.
—Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 20 May 2026
Scroll ahead to see Crawley’s style obsessions and must-have beauty essentials that have solidified her status as a true driver of culture.
—Essence, 8 May 2026
Current obsessions include the latest Twilight Sad release.
—Liza Lentini, SPIN, 8 May 2026
Eileen is Hathaway perfectly in the pocket with her obsessions as a performer, melding her gifts for the exquisite and the dark while building a character who is never easy to pin down to a simple motive.
—Chris Feil, Vulture, 1 May 2026
While plenty of star duos grabbed headlines, five stood out as some of the era's obsessions.
—Kate Hogan, PEOPLE, 22 Apr. 2026
Shop all of our latest obsessions in one place!
—Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 21 Apr. 2026
The album sounds like the culmination of a lifelong ambition for Reznor, one of many obsessions he’s chased for nearly four decades.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2026
Sara Rowe Mount, Parents, 22 May 2026
Her interviews from that moment, triggered by the obsessions of bombers Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, would later be chronicled at the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum.
—Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 20 May 2026
Scroll ahead to see Crawley’s style obsessions and must-have beauty essentials that have solidified her status as a true driver of culture.
—Essence, 8 May 2026
Current obsessions include the latest Twilight Sad release.
—Liza Lentini, SPIN, 8 May 2026
Eileen is Hathaway perfectly in the pocket with her obsessions as a performer, melding her gifts for the exquisite and the dark while building a character who is never easy to pin down to a simple motive.
—Chris Feil, Vulture, 1 May 2026
While plenty of star duos grabbed headlines, five stood out as some of the era's obsessions.
—Kate Hogan, PEOPLE, 22 Apr. 2026
Shop all of our latest obsessions in one place!
—Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 21 Apr. 2026
The album sounds like the culmination of a lifelong ambition for Reznor, one of many obsessions he’s chased for nearly four decades.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for obsessions
Noun
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Protectionism and tariffs increased, and growing numbers blamed the citizens of other countries for their problems.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 May 2026
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Nearly two centuries later—while the Warren Commission did its work—the highest office in the land was still beset by pants problems.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
26 May 2026
Noun
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The movie thus offers a complaint about the end results of Putinism, not about the ideas—the emotions, the enthusiasms, the resentments, the hatreds—that brought it about.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
13 May 2026
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Urie plays Monty Blakemont III, a dashing art connoisseur and philanthropist, whose enthusiasms are genuine though his financial resources are suspect.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
18 Mar. 2026
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Asked to describe her thematic preoccupations as a filmmaker, Sode offers a succinct formulation.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
19 May 2026
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That game illuminates the tension between self and community that has fueled the show’s longevity, and reflects the preoccupations of a country that has always been torn between the two.—
Julie Beck,
The Atlantic,
12 May 2026
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Instead, the president is consumed with unpopular and unserious fixations.—
Aidan McLaughlin,
Vanity Fair,
29 May 2026
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Here, our childhood historical hyper fixations came to life.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
26 May 2026
Noun
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Here, the sado-sensual yearning of the Confederacy to instantiate itself through the fetishes and reliquaries of figurative sculpture is shown as hollow, impotent, all too discomfiting, and very real.—
Horace D. Ballard,
Artforum,
22 Apr. 2026
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Studies show the online dating space is less welcoming for Black women willing to try it — experiences include misogynoir, racial fetishes and microaggressions, in addition to biased dating app algorithms that leave many feeling invisible, less desirable and lonely.—
Tribune News Service,
Baltimore Sun,
9 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The most dangerous manias often form around technologies that really do work.—
James Broughel,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
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Legendary billionaire investor Howard Marks, cofounder and cochairman of Oaktree Capital Management, has spent decades navigating financial manias, sea changes in interest rates, and the shifting pendulums of investor psychology.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
3 Mar. 2026
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“Obsessions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obsessions. Accessed 2 Jun. 2026.
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