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obsess

[uhb-ses] / əbˈsɛs /


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The investment implication of this new research is that long-term investors need not obsess about demographic projections when picking countries in which to invest.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026

The number of eggs you have stored can become another health metric to obsess over.

From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2026

Where Tumblr-ites dreamed of the cloistered quads and moody libraries of Princeton in the 2010s, TikTok-ers now obsess over the elaborate rituals of University of Alabama sororities.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

Other Pacific states don’t celebrate and obsess over tuba, though, like Colima does.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

“You obsess, Henry,” she said, her hand still trembling.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

Alongside scenes where Guardiola obsesses over tactics, there are many where he gives candid speeches and berates his team.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

While everyone obsesses over what happens to oil flows in the Strait of Hormuz, a solar-power revolution is under way in some emerging countries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

Which means stock prices themselves — the thing everyone obsesses over — contribute about as much to your wealth as the participation trophy you got in Little League.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2025

The opportunity to explore this case where justice was never served is something that intrigues and obsesses me.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2024

That thing conscience, which obsesses and rides some people to destruction, did not trouble him at all.

From The Financier, a novel by Theodore Dreiser

So, how has an island perched off Australia's northern tip become so obsessed with the sport?

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

I’m obsessed with them all, both as a model for my future self and also the person I’d like to be right now—effortless, serene, perfect.

From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2026

David Chase is obsessed with “The Twilight Zone.”

From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026

He is obsessed with the cruelty and opportunism of the press, yet his writing spares no one.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

They were extremely generous with their few possessions, and were not obsessed with success or wealth.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

The pressure on France has investors obsessing over a level known as “the spread,” or the extra yield on French bonds compared with the bloc’s safest investment: the German bund.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Investors have spent months obsessing over Treasury yields.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

When I first started obsessing about music, the stuff that I liked was all in Spanish.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

We will stop obsessing over money and fighting over resources and instead organize our society around generosity and kindness.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

“Don’t be disrespectful,” she said, reminding me of my manners, but I was already obsessing about my bleeding-nose problem.

From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos


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