preoccupy

In his podcast comments, Vance also clarified that such thoughts did not preoccupy him.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 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

The former thought might preoccupy professors in departments of psychology, and their colleagues in the neighboring departments of neuroscience.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

But it’s the fighters’ first encounter, in 1936, that preoccupies “The Clash of Nations: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

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

It's an issue that preoccupies the German government too.

From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2022

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

This preoccupies her, it’s her own mystery that she hasn’t been able to solve.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

Angel City and “Ted Lasso” both came to life in the summer of 2020 when the rest of the world was preoccupied with something far more serious, the global COVID-19 pandemic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

However, the main Tesla-related story is unrelated the group’s earnings, Mould says, with investors preoccupied by the company’s potential merger with SpaceX.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Another earnings season is just around the corner, and more companies than usual have had upbeat expectations, while their executives are also a bit less preoccupied with inflation.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 13, 2026

In June, I became briefly preoccupied with the question of what kind of reader I intended to be that summer.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

“I would normally be quite glad to make your acquaintance, but I happen to be a bit preoccupied at the moment.”

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley

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

An unremarkable-looking plan for a new factory in Poland cuts to the heart of big questions that are preoccupying governments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

“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

Whatever is getting you down or preoccupying you, you can't be thinking about that when you're birding.

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2023

It seems increasingly likely that I really will undertake the expedition that has been preoccupying my imagination now for some days.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro