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to hold one's attention to an extreme degree
The TV show obsessed me so much that I was up all night watching.
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Recent Examples of obsesses
And when one of them goes missing in the dead of night, they're thrust into a propulsive mystery pulled straight from the true-crime podcasts Sybil obsesses over.
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Danielle Parker,
CBS News,
30 June 2026
Much to Bear’s astonishment, the wish comes true, but with unintended consequences as Nikki dangerously obsesses over him and resorts to deadly measures to prove her love for him.
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Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
Tullman also hired Bre Smith as his executive vice president, an artist in her own right but also a veteran of hospitality at the Ritz-Carlton Marina del Rey and elsewhere, and a woman with a hefty budget who obsesses over everything from the flatware to the level of customer service.
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Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Apr. 2026
While the market obsesses over chips, the real story is Nvidia's 'five-layer stack' designed to squeeze hyperscaler margins and lock-in the generation of agentic AI.
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Fred Imbert,
CNBC,
15 Mar. 2026
While Washington debates deepfakes and Silicon Valley obsesses over LLMs that write poetry, the global economy is hitting a physical wall.
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Vivek Ranadive,
Fortune,
14 Mar. 2026
Trump obsesses over bloodlines too.
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Daniel Engber,
The Atlantic,
22 Feb. 2026
The narrator cries, rages, longs for the living body and the lively boy, and obsesses over painful details, especially the bleak journey by sea that brought the remains of his beloved friend back home.
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Kathryn Schulz,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
The story follows trauma nurse Aly Cappellucci, who obsesses over masked men on social media, fantasizing about them chasing her down.
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Theara Coleman,
TheWeek,
26 Jan. 2026
Danielle Parker,
CBS News,
30 June 2026
Much to Bear’s astonishment, the wish comes true, but with unintended consequences as Nikki dangerously obsesses over him and resorts to deadly measures to prove her love for him.
—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
Tullman also hired Bre Smith as his executive vice president, an artist in her own right but also a veteran of hospitality at the Ritz-Carlton Marina del Rey and elsewhere, and a woman with a hefty budget who obsesses over everything from the flatware to the level of customer service.
—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Apr. 2026
While the market obsesses over chips, the real story is Nvidia's 'five-layer stack' designed to squeeze hyperscaler margins and lock-in the generation of agentic AI.
—
Fred Imbert,
CNBC,
15 Mar. 2026
While Washington debates deepfakes and Silicon Valley obsesses over LLMs that write poetry, the global economy is hitting a physical wall.
—
Vivek Ranadive,
Fortune,
14 Mar. 2026
Trump obsesses over bloodlines too.
—
Daniel Engber,
The Atlantic,
22 Feb. 2026
The narrator cries, rages, longs for the living body and the lively boy, and obsesses over painful details, especially the bleak journey by sea that brought the remains of his beloved friend back home.
—
Kathryn Schulz,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
The story follows trauma nurse Aly Cappellucci, who obsesses over masked men on social media, fantasizing about them chasing her down.
—
Theara Coleman,
TheWeek,
26 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for obsesses
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Seed on the ground molds quickly and attracts disease-carrying rodents.
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Tanglewood Park covers 1,100 acres, and attracts about 500,000 people annually to its gardens, golf courses, horse stables and stocked lakes, county officials said.
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There is something magical about a firefly that fascinates young and old alike.
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There is something about the play Harvey that fascinates me, especially for right now.
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That’s what intrigues them about coming to work for a large company that’s constantly evolving.
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The essential nature of magic especially intrigues physicists like Swingle, who hope to use it on a quantum computer to simulate how gravity behaves in situations where general relativity fails.
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These are novels about bohemian communities of friends and lovers and artistic collaborators, which is a big part of what interests me about AIDS activism.
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What interests me more is what has changed, which is the very substance of capital.
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