preoccupy
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That, along with the Knicks players' return from San Antonio, will preoccupy this city with basketball for a few more days.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
“If the Iran situation lingers, it will preoccupy more and more of Congress’ time,” said Stifel Chief Washington Strategist Brian Gardner.
From Barron's ● Mar. 3, 2026
What will preoccupy us in a century, fuel our ambitions and stir our fears, will probably be something we can’t even imagine today.
From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2025
Numbers don’t preoccupy me as much as they did my father, but I still find them fascinating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
I suppose I must have assumed those old problems had been left behind with our early teen years, and that only the big issues that now loomed so large could possibly preoccupy any of us.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
This season, an event of global significance preoccupies the nuns and nurses of Nonnatus House: Their branch office in Hong Kong has fallen into the street.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
This is a really critical piece that preoccupies me: what that does to our ability to organize and be in solidarity.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2023
Better to simply call her a writer: a person who must put into words that which preoccupies her; not for therapeutic ends, not for consolation, but with a probing concern about that which wounds us.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 2022
From watching Indian movies, it would seem as if no issue preoccupies young Indians more than romantic love.
From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2021
What preoccupies me is immediate: the separation I endure with my parents in loss.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
But like the current wellness movement, looksmaxxers are preoccupied with masculinity.
From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2026
For George Buckley, chief European economist at Japanese bank Nomura, climate change is becoming harder to ignore, even in a profession preoccupied with quarterly data.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
In a community where residents are preoccupied with their own difficult recovery journeys, the unity was noteworthy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Our society has once again become disturbingly preoccupied with sex and gender.
From Salon ● May 27, 2026
His thoughts remain preoccupied with the image of the girl from the theater.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
With the use of personal data by AI models preoccupying authorities, particularly in Europe, Berners-Lee has made data protection his main cause in recent years, notably through the startup Inrupt.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
The future preoccupying him right now, though, is the 2026 harvest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 2026
So much so that the dread itself becomes preoccupying, all-enveloping, claustrophobic.
From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2024
“What is preoccupying my brain, my everything, is just the fear of what’s going to happen next,” he said in an interview.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 2023
Ralph Myers was illiterate, but he knew that it was the Morrison crime that was preoccupying law enforcement investigators.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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