PREOCCUPY Synonyms: 30 Similar and Opposite Words

preoccupy

verb

as in to fascinate

to be thought about or worried about by (someone) very often or constantly The question of life after death has preoccupied many philosophers.

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Recent Examples on the Web Human beings are too inward-looking and preoccupied with things that aren’t important. —

Brent Lang, Variety, 6 Sep. 2024 The population, then at around 211 million, continued to expand, and many who at first worried for the carrying capacity of the planet became preoccupied with walling off the country and keeping the global population at bay. —

Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 19 Oct. 2024 Whereas The Remainder was preoccupied with the ghosts of a violent dictatorship, Clean exposes more contemporary cultural fault lines that are just as destabilizing and, in their immediacy, more urgent. —

Carolina A. Miranda, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2024 Liberal Democrats who criticized Harris during her unsuccessful 2020 presidential campaign have been less vocal about their concerns four years later, preoccupied with the political threat posed by Trump. —

Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 5 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for preoccupy

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Advertisement As a child he was fascinated by Native American traditions, which made far more sense to him than the pageantry of the church.

Esther Zuckerman, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024
From the ages of 5 to 15, I was captivated by baseball cards, fascinated by their value appreciation and the prospect of selling them.

Noel Burgess, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024