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Recent Examples of preoccupation Today President Trump’s preoccupation with foreign dominance in the region is focused squarely on Beijing. Whitney Eulich, Christian Science Monitor, 30 May 2025 During this period, the concept of immortality—the physical departure from human society and the achievement of eternal life—became a national preoccupation. Jane Levere, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025 Johnson’s appearance, however, occurred not in the current wave of federal overreach but in May of 1935, amid a feverish preoccupation with communism in academia. Jelani Cobb, New Yorker, 25 May 2025 What the director hadn’t learned at this embryonic stage was how to bend his perverse preoccupations into a compelling dramatic shape, or even into gross-out thrills. A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for preoccupation
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obsession
Noun
  • The senate’s habitual obsession with women as a threat (to conquest, power, imperial security, male dignity) cannot be overstated.
    Literary Hub June 23, Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
  • Melissa Benoist stars as Nicole, whose romantic relationship with Andrew (Miles Teller) is fractured because of Andrew’s obsession with drumming in writer-director Damien Chazelle’s psychological drama Whiplash.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025

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