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obsessive

[uhb-ses-iv] / əbˈsɛs ɪv /
ADJECTIVE
addictive
Synonyms
WEAK
enslaving hooking














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As well as suffering with neurological fatigue, Saskia said she developed a form of obsessive compulsive disorder and became sensitive to loud noises and bright lights.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

"There's way more food to track than there is with exercise, so I can see how that can get extremely obsessive," he added.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

I’m as nostalgic as the next Gen X radio obsessive who remembers long rides in my 1980s Mazda, searching the AM spectrum for engaging chatter.

From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2026

Yet tailoring is also one of fashion’s great luxuries — an intimate, almost obsessive process of shaping cloth around the body.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

There is a recurrent scene from those dinners that surfaces again and again, like an obsessive undercurrent in a dream.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt


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