obsess
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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
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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
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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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