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Recent Examples of cathexis
Dependency and cathexis are also incredibly painful and difficult to extricate yourself from.
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Janey Starling, refinery29.com, 10 Apr. 2020
There’s a word for this loss of self in devotion: cathexis.
—Janey Starling, refinery29.com, 10 Apr. 2020
Janey Starling, refinery29.com, 10 Apr. 2020
There’s a word for this loss of self in devotion: cathexis.
—Janey Starling, refinery29.com, 10 Apr. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cathexis
Noun
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This is the kind of decision franchises dread—where emotion, logic, and reality collide in uncomfortable ways.—
Brian Sampson,
Forbes,
17 Jan. 2025
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In animals, sentience is the capacity to experience sensations and emotions such as pain, pleasure and fear.—
Conor Purcell,
Scientific American,
17 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Whether the reservoir would have had a meaningful effect on fighting a blaze of such intensity remains unclear.—
Matt Hamilton,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Jan. 2025
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What is the appropriate level of intensity for the conversation at hand? 3.—
Hylke Faber,
Forbes,
10 Jan. 2025
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And that became my obsession during the writing of the script.—
Brian Davids,
The Hollywood Reporter,
17 Jan. 2025
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The teaser shows Joe (Penn Badgley) returning to New York City, walking through Mooney's Bookstore and reminiscing about his first obsession, Guinevere Beck (Elizabeth Lail).—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
16 Jan. 2025
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The brand’s mission is personal, stemming from Ralph’s lifelong infatuation with jewelry and his ties to a Divine Nine fraternity.—
Molly Peck,
USA TODAY,
12 Jan. 2025
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Not until the day when a woman from an infatuation a few years back introduced me to Michele.—
Claës Nordenskiöld,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The sharp increase in violence against transit and frontline workers forces people to decide between advocating for fare payment or ensuring personal safety for the matter of $2.90.—
Deborah Wathen Finn,
New York Daily News,
15 Jan. 2025
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Since the Hamas terror attacks of October 7, Canadian cities have been disgraced by anti-Semitic incidents of accelerating violence.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
15 Jan. 2025
Noun
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These HDDs use the company’s Mozaic 3+ heat assisted magnetic recording, HAMR, technology, where lasers are used to reduce the magnetic fields from the write head required to write a high-densities on stable high coercivity magnetic recording media.—
Thomas Coughlin,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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Sinner’s serve that broke the net was a freak incident in an already strange match played in the burning heat of the day.—
Charlie Eccleshare,
The Athletic,
20 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Both teens separately described similar environments of pro-Palestinian fervor that left them feeling ostracized, particularly when older students with no cultural ties to the Palestinians began to don keffiyehs and accuse Israel of committing genocide in Gaza.—
Beth Bailey,
Fox News,
8 Jan. 2025
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That’s despite summer record-setters such as Disney’s Deadpool & Wolverine and Inside Out 2 and holiday hits such as Wicked, Moana 2 and Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Way more sequels are set for 2025, driving business, if not heartfelt fervor.—
David Bloom,
Forbes,
31 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Must have been like this in Amsterdam during the great tulip mania.—
Andrew Mackie,
The Athletic,
17 Jan. 2025
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Foreman theater answered this call by creating dreamscapes that eluded our intellect’s mania for control.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Jan. 2025
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“Cathexis.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cathexis. Accessed 26 Jan. 2025.
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