fixation
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The Met Gala, which began in 1948, was always a fixture of the New York society pages, but in the last 10 years it has become an all-eyes-on cultural fixation.
From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026
Ultimately, the fixation on Hasan Piker distracts from more substantive issues.
From Salon • May 2, 2026
As the summer wanes, Jean’s fixation on David grows.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026
These reveal a fixation on technology and—unusual for a Haring exhibition—an interest in violence absent from his best-known work.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 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
Vocabulary lists containing fixation
Psychology
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Vocabulary from Readings 2, Unit 2
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