as in obsessions
something about which one is constantly thinking or concerned
had this bizarre idée fixe that people were spying on her with electromagnetic waves
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obsessions
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My obsessions surrounding her care, health, and well-being were funneled into a compulsive use of the app.—
Sara Rowe Mount,
Parents,
22 May 2026 -
Her interviews from that moment, triggered by the obsessions of bombers Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, would later be chronicled at the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum.—
Eric Adler,
Kansas City Star,
20 May 2026
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“Idées fixes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/id%C3%A9es%20fixes. Accessed 26 May. 2026.
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