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Recent Examples of monomania
Coaches and judges exacerbated students’ monomania.
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Tess McNulty, Harper's Magazine, 10 Aug. 2022
Because as is now clear, Putin’s monomania about controlling Ukraine—its military, its economy, its entire sovereignty—stems not from security arrangements, but from pure, unadulterated neo-imperialism, and a desire to reclaim territories Putin believes belong to Moscow.
—Casey Michel, The New Republic, 22 Feb. 2022
The monomania of getting into the sky transcends any barrier that puts him on the ground.
—Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Dec. 2022
In conceiving the project, Fournier and Marty invented a backstory and built their décor around it with the zany monomania of a Wes Anderson movie.
—Joshua Levine, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2018
The textualist monomania seems to grate especially on Ginsburg, who was famously close with Scalia.
—Simon Van Zuylen-Wood, Daily Intelligencer, 28 May 2018
Fischer’s defiant monomania already had many worried during his adolescence.
—Ann Hulbert, Time, 10 Jan. 2018
There are a few problems with the notion that Trump is to blame for our collective political monomania.
—Christopher Beha, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019
Polar monomania is the subject and driving force behind this curious book, a composite of capsule history, essays and fictionalized memoir.
—Sam Sacks, WSJ, 8 June 2018
Tess McNulty, Harper's Magazine, 10 Aug. 2022
Because as is now clear, Putin’s monomania about controlling Ukraine—its military, its economy, its entire sovereignty—stems not from security arrangements, but from pure, unadulterated neo-imperialism, and a desire to reclaim territories Putin believes belong to Moscow.
—Casey Michel, The New Republic, 22 Feb. 2022
The monomania of getting into the sky transcends any barrier that puts him on the ground.
—Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Dec. 2022
In conceiving the project, Fournier and Marty invented a backstory and built their décor around it with the zany monomania of a Wes Anderson movie.
—Joshua Levine, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2018
The textualist monomania seems to grate especially on Ginsburg, who was famously close with Scalia.
—Simon Van Zuylen-Wood, Daily Intelligencer, 28 May 2018
Fischer’s defiant monomania already had many worried during his adolescence.
—Ann Hulbert, Time, 10 Jan. 2018
There are a few problems with the notion that Trump is to blame for our collective political monomania.
—Christopher Beha, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019
Polar monomania is the subject and driving force behind this curious book, a composite of capsule history, essays and fictionalized memoir.
—Sam Sacks, WSJ, 8 June 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for monomania
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This absurd claim is an extension of their relentless obsession to remove checks and balances within our government.Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 5 Nov. 2024
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Opponent Kamala Harris' campaign—which has repeatedly mocked Trump's obsession with crowd size during the 2024 election cycle—shared a video on X, formerly Twitter, of the partially empty 7,200-seat venue.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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Michelle Nijhuis Life in the Ruins Two new books consider the delusion of the human quest to be free from the constraints of nature.The New York Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, 1 Nov. 2024
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But Wainaina’s work dissecting the delusions of Westerners who project their hopes and fears onto the continent is as relevant as ever—perhaps even more so, now that the goal is no longer to rescue but to profit.Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2024
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What the current vanguard of intensive parenting appears to reflect is a deepening phobia of diminishing returns.Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2024
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In addition to needle phobia, he’s identified several hurdles that stop people from injecting epinephrine sooner.Natallie Rocha, The Mercury News, 11 Oct. 2024
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“Monomania.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monomania. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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