fixation
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Researchers in Tristan Wagner's laboratory at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen wanted to understand how this organism performs nitrogen fixation under such extreme conditions.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
Yet the fixation on AI leaderboards may be missing the point, according to MoffettNathanson analyst Michael Nathanson.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
That fixation with sleep is actually making people's sleep worse, they warn.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
The project sums up the fixation of both Mexican Institute of Sound and Meridian Brothers with analogue archaeology.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
But Milo was deaf and kept pushing forward, nonviolently but irresistibly, sweating, his eyes, as though he were in the grip of a blind fixation, burning feverishly, and his twitching mouth slavering.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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I’d wager that’s a large part of why “It Ends” feels blessedly removed from the hype of internet media, yet still very much in conversation with the fixations and lifestyles of Gen Z audiences.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
Donabedian says he’s always watching for Wall Street fixations that move to the back-burner.
From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026
The author’s financial fixations permeate every page of the book.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026
Reading his column from the outside, people who don’t agree with Rod followed along, laughing about his wackier fixations and tracking the evolution of conservatism through his shifting enthusiasms.
From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2023
Seventy-six percent of all fixations were on the letters.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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