fixate

And it’s natural that many of them then will fixate on the worst-case scenarios and live their lives with a sense of worry and dread.

One of the paradoxes of sleep is that the more we fixate on getting it, the less likely we are to achieve it.

Or maybe, like Martha, this act of kindness will prompt him to fixate on the Good Samaritan offering it.

Right-wing rhetoric drives them to fixate on strangers like employees at a federal building, college girls, or abortion providers, so they can blame these people instead of themselves for their personal failings.

To side with the 5th Circuit, Alito had to fixate on a somewhat random period of English history in the 17th century—from James I to Charles I—to assert that the Constitution empowers courts to strike down appropriations that they dislike.