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obsessive person

noun as in valetudinarian

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Jamil admitted that anorexia had made her "an exhausted, boring, navel-gazing obsessive person" in her teens and early 20s.

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“Tony is an intense and obsessive person,” said Andrew Munday, DoorDash’s former head of operations.

“I’m a pretty obsessive person, especially when it’s something for me, and I’m extremely meticulous — so if you combine all those, it creates a great property, but it drives a lot of people crazy, costs a lot of money and takes a lot of time.”

“I’m a very obsessive person, so one poster became every poster,” Mr. Kraft said.

Presumably by anorak he did not mean a hooded waterproof jacket, but the British slang word that the Oxford Dictionaries defines as “a studious or obsessive person with unfashionable and largely solitary interests.”

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