fixate
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Instead of getting bogged down on the day-to-day of your job, and your growing disgust for it, fixate on your bigger purpose, said Nancy Ancowitz, a career strategist, and do something to nourish that.
From Barron's • Feb. 7, 2026
Stefan Angrick, of Moody’s Analytics, suggests investors are wrong to fixate on the headline figure of 18.3 trillion yen for the extra budget.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025
Halpern's earlier research identified a distinct pattern of electrical activity in the NAc that appears right before a person begins to fixate on food and feels the urge to binge.
From Science Daily • Dec. 8, 2025
But she did always seemed to fixate on people’s teeth.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2025
I’m trying not to fixate on it, but wow.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
Vocabulary lists containing fixate
Pride
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