obsession
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Her "obsession", as she describes it, with getting a high sleep score lasted three years, until earlier this year, when she started to notice the watch wasn't reflecting how she'd actually slept.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Discover how TV’s latest obsession is putting this Canadian cottage country on the map.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Your morning catch-up: Our obsession with Jackie, how L.A. lost Hollywood and more big stories.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Look to director Christopher Nolan, and his obsession with bringing spectacle to life with real props, real scenes.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
He told her about his obsession with that ridiculous one with Brendan Fraser, about how he had dressed as a different character from the movie for every Purim since eighth grade.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
Rowbottom’s willingness to move toward culturally uncomfortable material is central to her work, he stressed, treating so-called lowbrow or feminine cultural obsessions not as guilty pleasures, but as material worthy of literary merit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026
This isn’t all that uncommon: Trends crop up in filmmaking all the time, as potential narratives emerge from real-life events and cultural obsessions.
From Salon ● May 25, 2026
Mr. Armitage’s resplendent translation, proceeding with nerve, wisdom and necessary audacity, proves that literature does not progress so much as deepen, circling the same obsessions with ever-renewed urgency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
None of these three big investor obsessions is having a meaningful positive impact on Tesla’s financials.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 1, 2026
Clothes and shoes, everywhere—all representing her ever-shifting obsessions.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
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