as in problem
something about which one is constantly thinking or concerned
her latest obsession is a movie star who she thinks is very handsome
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Recent Examples of obsession
But his obsession with vinyl started, funnily enough, when CDs became the prevalent format.
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Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 6 Feb. 2025
Sundance waves goodbye with stories pitched between fame and obsession.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2025
And the obsession with weight loss is extending beyond our own bodies, as The Chain co-founder Christina Grasso points out.
—Tyler McCall, refinery29.com, 31 Jan. 2025
Being a theater kid, truly great technical singers are still an obsession for me, and Paula Cole is one of the greatest technical singers in history, and that’s not an overstatement.
—Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 30 Jan. 2025
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Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 6 Feb. 2025
Sundance waves goodbye with stories pitched between fame and obsession.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2025
And the obsession with weight loss is extending beyond our own bodies, as The Chain co-founder Christina Grasso points out.
—Tyler McCall, refinery29.com, 31 Jan. 2025
Being a theater kid, truly great technical singers are still an obsession for me, and Paula Cole is one of the greatest technical singers in history, and that’s not an overstatement.
—Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 30 Jan. 2025
See all Example Sentences for obsession
Recent Examples of Synonyms for obsession
Noun
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There is almost universal agreement on a diagnosis of the party’s problem with the working class.—
Shane Goldmacher,
New York Times,
17 Feb. 2025
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This has presented the astronomy community with a problem.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
17 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Like nearly everything about these two, their Tony Manero fascination has a boyish innocence.—
Sheri Linden,
The Hollywood Reporter,
17 Feb. 2025
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Firearms, a recent fascination, are the show’s most frequent subject.—
Laura Regensdorf Katharine Sohn Laura Bannister Osman Can Yerebakan Shannon Adducci,
New York Times,
13 Feb. 2025
Noun
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His camera’s graceful gyrations render all the more explicit the inextricable bond of dramas and their landscapes, embodying the film’s ideal of a physical and aesthetic connection with nature—its preoccupations with the spiritual dimensions of landscape and climate, color and texture.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
5 Feb. 2025
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Schrader doubles down on his thematic and stylistic preoccupations — Bressonian visual gestures, Dostoyevskian spiritual journeys, and a pointed social conscience, to name a few — but The Card Counter never feels like a retread of past ideas.—
Vikram Murthi,
Vulture,
21 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Then, as soon as the light levels rose enough to support active carbon fixation in late March, the algae were ready to explode into action.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
29 Jan. 2025
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That fixation on good manners was dropped by season two, allowing RHOP to ascend to greatness.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
29 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Only one of them has a fetish for the fetid stink of porta potties, but the other one has their weird kinks too.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
28 Jan. 2025
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But the pieces linked libidinal fetishes with consumerist ones, a truth whose relevance has only inflated.—
Max Lakin,
New York Times,
9 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Meta had to rebuild their data centers by racking billions of dollars worth of GPUs, years before the current Gen AI mania.—
Mia Galuppo,
The Hollywood Reporter,
11 Feb. 2025
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But, even that can be viewed as a feature, not a bug, as George and Harold’s artistic hubris is essential to the mania and meta-humor that ensues.—
James Grebey,
Vulture,
31 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The unexpected uptick in inflation could dampen some of the business enthusiasm that arose after Trump's election on promises to reduce regulation and cut taxes.—
CHRISTOPHER RUGABER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
arkansasonline.com,
13 Feb. 2025
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Many of the nation’s sheriffs have responded with enthusiasm.—
Eileen Sullivan,
New York Times,
12 Feb. 2025
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“Obsession.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obsession. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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