compulsive
Example Sentences
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Patients describe sleepless nights, compulsive news checking and physical agitation.
But there’s yet another reason for his compulsive dredging up of 2020, and it has everything to do with the future, not the past.
From Salon
Nick soon begins to soothe his fears and heal his trauma with the compulsive ritual of solitary fishing.
Through ERP patients are helped to manage their anxiety by gradually being exposed to their fears, while preventing them from performing their usual compulsive behaviours.
From BBC
The marketing method has been criticised for encouraging gambling-like behaviour and compulsive buying.
From BBC
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