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obsession

[uhb-sesh-uhn] / əbˈsɛʃ ən /


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My baseball obsession didn’t affect my grades though.

From The Wall Street Journal

David Simon, whose ruthless negotiating tactics, obsession with details and sheer force of will turned his family’s real-estate business into the largest mall owner in the country, died Sunday after a cancer diagnosis in 2024.

From The Wall Street Journal

But Bellamy is consumed by football, and his work as Wales head coach is an obsession.

From BBC

And gradually, more terrible than the crush of bodies and the filth, the single obsession was: something to drink.

From Literature

At 22 obsession looks like hunger, but at 42 it looks like instability.

From The Wall Street Journal