infatuation

For him, the data centre project is born of "infatuation with all things digital" and "developing AI at breakneck speed in all directions".

From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026

It was a crazed type of infatuation with stardom, not generated from me, but at me.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026

Marianne is first consumed by her own infatuation, then disconsolate when Willoughby dumps her for an heiress, and finally felled by a fever.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

Qian wrote poems about social responsibility, with lines such as: "We must love the elderly with the infatuation of a first romance."

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2025

And I hug her back—not with the girl-next-door kind of infatuation I maybe would’ve had in the past, but with a sincerity that I hadn’t felt before.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

She didn’t invent the idea of catchy songs about infatuations and breakups where the protagonist’s experience can be mapped to a singer’s life, but she perfected it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

Their infatuations are challenged by a cunning philosopher who persuades the bros to pretend they’ve been suddenly drafted and to return later in disguise to woo each other’s fiancée.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2025

Justine Wewers, a high school geography teacher in Minnesota’s Anoka-Hennepin district, said she has seen a wearying number of student infatuations over the years, including video games, “Uno” and fidget spinners.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2023

Still, it’s probably wise for shoppers and companies that sell stuff not to become too infatuated with what may be our brief infatuations.

From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2022

They were person-specific infatuations — Brian Levithan’s wicked sense of humor was every bit as sexy as Valerie Martinez’s sweet smile and amazing krunk routines.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray