preoccupy
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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
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
It's an issue that preoccupies the German government too.
From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2022
Behind Mr. Vucic’s levity over physical stature, however, lurks a serious question that torments the Balkans and preoccupies Western diplomats.
From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2022
What preoccupies me is immediate: the separation I endure with my parents in loss.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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
But Vance reiterated that he was preoccupied with being vice-president, explaining: "What I'm trying to focus on is doing as much of God's work as possible right now."
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
But like the current wellness movement, looksmaxxers are preoccupied with masculinity.
From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2026
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
Besides, Ophie was preoccupied with her own thoughts.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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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