obsessive
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Obsessive about details in his restaurants and home, he asked me to enter his house through his gym instead of the front door, because it has the best view spanning the leafy estate.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026
“From across the street, it looks relatively similar to the perfectly green lawns of my neighbors,” said the author of “American Green: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 2023
Obsessive compulsive disorder affects more than 500,000 people in the UK.
From BBC • Apr. 12, 2023
Obsessive interest in movies was best fed by digging up old reviews and Mad magazine satires.
From New York Times • Jul. 15, 2021
Obsessive or not, any parent wants to believe that she is making a big difference in the kind of person her child turns out to be.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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