fixated
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"Current pain medicine is fixated on ridding patients of their pain symptoms, but that's not the source of chronic pain. These data suggest that a chronic pain flare also encompasses one's identity."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
Vietnam was “a kind of shibboleth, he says, “but no one was fixated on it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
However, some fans have fixated on the change, posting compilation videos showing the evolution of her speaking style, external on YouTube.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Largely because Angels scouting director Bob Fontaine Jr. ignored the potential limitations that others fixated on when evaluating Abbott.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
He showed a kind of fixated resolve, as if the only way to deal with this problem was to bull through it and get it over with.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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