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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

And while America obsesses over building smarter models, China simply deploys imperfect AI anyway.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 3, 2025

Some identify with a “patriot” movement that obsesses over the Founding Fathers and the American Revolution, he said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2024

Some fans of it identify with a “patriot” movement that obsesses over the Founding Fathers and the American Revolution, he said.

From Seattle Times • May 23, 2024

The elder Napoleon was obsessed by the same dream of world dominion, the same passion for military glory, that now obsesses those against whom we war.

From Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 by Various