fixation
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As sperm health becomes a cultural fixation, wellness brands are fueling the demand by swarming the market with products such as male-fertility supplements and sperm-testing kits.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026
"I wanted the repetition to mirror those cyclical thoughts - a spiral or a fixation on one specific feeling," she says.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026
The book trend cover suggests collective angst about adulthood, highlighted by a cultural fixation on “girlhood” that sparked a spate of online think pieces in recent years.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026
He has performed this exact procedure on dozens of patients, notably those whose symmetry goals have become an obvious fixation.
From Slate • Feb. 22, 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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