How to Use preoccupation in a Sentence

preoccupation

noun

• We need to better understand the problems and preoccupations of our clients.
• Still, even with its preoccupation with death, The Room Next Door is not a dour film.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2024
• And while the food (a goat cheese salad, red snapper) and decor were lovely objects of preoccupation, the art was the highlight of the night.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 16 Nov. 2018
• Throughout your life, how much has career and the pursuit of a good life been a preoccupation for you?
  — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 26 June 2019
• Then again, as long as North Korea remains a preoccupation, the pressure will be on to keep Beijing in the fold and lean on the rogue regime.
  — Tory Newmyer, Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2018
• Just look for all the insect references – stink bugs at the beginning to flies at the end, and a preoccupation with odor across the frames.
  — Mark Kennedy, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2019
• Just look for all the insect references — stink bugs at the beginning to flies at the end, and a preoccupation with odor across the frames.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2019
• But it could be argued that the preoccupation with food began in the 17th century, when the Dutch were at the center of the global spice trade.
  — Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2022
• The integrity of elections has been a preoccupation on the right for years.
  — Robert O'Harrow Jr., Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2021
• This seems to fairly reflect the range of Lipsky’s preoccupations, as well as the span of his writing.
  — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2023
• Instead of replacing the guy at the center of the action, the guy is her preoccupation.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2021
• The preoccupation with Russian meddling is a call to rally around the flag.
  — Adam Tooze, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
• Fat Mike has brought this preoccupation with him to the Punk Rock Museum.
  — Brett Martin, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• Songwriting wasn’t our preoccupation when the Edge and I were younger.
  — Rob Tannenbaum, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2023
• Our preoccupation with growing our wealth and status has left us in a world that is high on carbon but low on care.
  — Gina Lodge, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
• The book seems to be organized more around her own preoccupations than around those of its subject.
  — Carson Holloway, National Review, 20 June 2019
• The dams were a preoccupation for Ashoor, who had warned of their fragility as early as 2008 in his master’s thesis.
  — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
• Given the preoccupation with safety that has plagued the country since at ...
  — Amity Shlaes, National Review, 10 Nov. 2023
• The cultural preoccupation with zombies shambles on in The Last of Us and other movies and video games.
  — Neda Ulaby, NPR, 1 Apr. 2024
• In those days, the focus was the usual tech wonderment preoccupation about whether or not AI could be devised to drive a car.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
• For Kessler, a multilingual German/Finn, the idea of home has been a preoccupation since school days.
  — Vogue, 12 May 2022
• The central zone of the apartment is occupied with each of the couple's preoccupations.
  — Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 6 June 2023
• But his main preoccupation was his grown children, who had left the area — one to study in Dresden, one to work in Kassel, in the former West Germany.
  — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 31 Jan. 2022
• Even as a longtime reader of War and Peace, I’ve been surprised by this preoccupation.
  — Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
• Goode’s greatest preoccupation, the one that all the others seem to revolve around, is reptiles.
  — Lane Brown, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2024
• Holes is open about his preoccupation with his work, frequently to the detriment of his private life.
  — Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2022
• Trump’s preoccupation with Joe Biden and his son Hunter flourished there.
  — Lynn Berry, The Denver Post, 4 Nov. 2019
• But Hsu makes clear that these people, and the details of the violence to which Ken was subjected, are not his preoccupation.
  — Claire Messud, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
• People’s preoccupation with collapse—or extinction—is by no means new.
  — Hazlitt, 3 Dec. 2024
• The lazy tendency of many historical films is to put people with modern frameworks and preoccupations into period garb, telling stories that make sense to contemporary audiences.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Mar 2025