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
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
The London-reared actor and former Ralph Lauren model comes across as a mild-mannered Gen Z type who runs his words together and is preoccupied with being cute.
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
Schlamminger skipped the conference's morning sessions, preoccupied with worries about temperature fluctuations, pressure changes, and other tiny effects that might distort the results.
From Science Daily ● May 18, 2026
In such cases, the creatures may be unaware of the dangers because they are preoccupied, for example, by feeding, she said.
From Barron's ● May 11, 2026
We were so preoccupied, I think, by the ordinary things in life, that after a while I did not give much thought to Mutti’s mysterious idea.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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
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
As worrying as the family’s financial state was to Regina, her concerns about Bobby’s mental health, personality, and behavior eventually became preoccupying.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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