fixation
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Others spread until every member of a population carries them, a process known as fixation.
From Science Daily • May 29, 2026
“Mother Mary” and “The Moment” explored the natural endpoint of pop-star fixation in the age of the internet.
From Salon • May 25, 2026
"I think the fixation on the toilet is kind of human nature," he said.
From BBC • Apr. 5, 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
He also had an extreme fixation on the 1980s, the decade during which he’d been a teenager.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
Vocabulary lists containing fixation
Psychology
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Vocabulary from Readings 2, Unit 2
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