fixation
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Almost everyone can agree that K–12 schooling—with its overreliance on screens, fixation on testing, and shift away from reading whole books—is in need of a serious overhaul.
From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2026
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
She’d never even imagined doing it herself, and for all of her sister’s fixation on kissing, she’d never imagined her doing it, either.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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
López designed “Night Country” to meditate on women’s fixations, obsessions, insecurities and fears.
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2024
It’s a movie for people who really dig Cronenberg’s mulchy fixations — and probably for no one else.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
Complaining about Kunu Yaku was just another of the Doctorita’s little fixations, I realized, like knitting Baby Jesus dresses and fretting about thieves and wor- rying about her boys catching germs.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
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