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Recent Examples of obsessive Nearly half of these offenders exhibited evidence of fixation – an intense or obsessive preoccupation with an individual, activity, or idea. Donald J. Mihalek, ABC News, 16 June 2025 But my other obsessive pursuits did not possess that game-like quality, did not satisfy the thrill of the chase, of competition against myself. Hazlitt, 11 June 2025 Straight heads-down obsessive preoccupation with landing at AGI. Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 11 June 2025 The breast cancer diagnosis comes less than one year after the singer revealed that she was diagnosed with ADHD (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder) and OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder). Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 4 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for obsessive
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Adjective
  • Written and directed by documentarian Brian Tetsuro Ivie (Emanuel) in his narrative directorial debut, the film tells the story of an impulsive young woman and a reclusive older man who launch on a poignant cross‑country road trip.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 26 June 2025
  • Unfortunately, impulsive, inventory-optimization metric chasing often soothes symptoms while elevating strategic risk.
    Noah Barsky, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
Adjective
  • Smith resorted to compulsive prayer and attempting to reason with the obsessions as a way of bringing about a respite to his struggles.
    Ben Morse, CNN Money, 25 June 2025
  • That’s almost as rom-com-relatable as compulsive klutziness.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 20 June 2025

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“Obsessive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obsessive. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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