obsession
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Longstanding societal norms of thrift and modesty, and lingering memories of wartime scarcity and inflation, have helped make saving an obsession and moral imperative.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 24, 2026
For more than a decade, America has been gripped by a true crime obsession.
From BBC • Jun. 20, 2026
Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck, look at what makes SpaceX’s massive IPO so strange and why investors are willing to overlook things like Musk’s obsession with going to Mars.
From Slate • Jun. 20, 2026
It was something of an obsession, a harmless one, and we were happy to oblige.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2026
His obsession with personal honesty was a cousin to his obsession with fairness.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Vocabulary lists containing obsession
Vocabulary from an excerpt from "Confessions of a 30-Year-Old Gamer," by Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates
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