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

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 he has also been criticized as rigid and uncompromising, seeming to fixate only on details that point to an officer’s guilt.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 17, 2025

Those green eyes fixate on a point with such intensity that you find yourself trying to make out what she sees in the empty air.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins