fixate

Example Sentences

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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

But Ms. McCracken does not fixate on the aesthetic of a sentence or the mechanics of plot.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

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

After practices, instead of thinking about plays that went right, their minds fixate on things that went wrong.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2025

My nose inhales the aroma and my eyes fixate on the yellow ears.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung