as in problem
something about which one is constantly thinking or concerned
her latest obsession is a movie star who she thinks is very handsome
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Recent Examples of obsession
While unveiling the project onstage, executive producer and showrunner Meredith Averill teased that the series will fully embrace the emotional intensity and fandom obsession that helped turn Fourth Wing into a global phenomenon.
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Deirdre Durkan, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026
This obsession with hiring based on race is wrong.
—Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 13 May 2026
Despite the full-bodied nature of the film in its first half — a great big breathing thing that feels vérité in its scope and ambition — as Gabrielle’s obsession with Frida grows, things narrow.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 13 May 2026
Its season-long obsession with 1-1 draws was finally vindicated by Liverpool vs Chelsea on Saturday, Forest vs Newcastle on Sunday and Tottenham vs Leeds on Monday.
—Oliver Kay, New York Times, 13 May 2026
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Deirdre Durkan, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026
This obsession with hiring based on race is wrong.
—Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 13 May 2026
Despite the full-bodied nature of the film in its first half — a great big breathing thing that feels vérité in its scope and ambition — as Gabrielle’s obsession with Frida grows, things narrow.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 13 May 2026
Its season-long obsession with 1-1 draws was finally vindicated by Liverpool vs Chelsea on Saturday, Forest vs Newcastle on Sunday and Tottenham vs Leeds on Monday.
—Oliver Kay, New York Times, 13 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for obsession
Noun
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In other words, Greg had thought insomnia a problem of the rich, the weak, the useless, the indulgent, the lazy.—
Weike Wang,
New Yorker,
17 May 2026
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But these problems are symptoms of a lack of housing and services, not evidence that policing is the right response.—
Shianne LeClaire,
Hartford Courant,
17 May 2026
Noun
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As public fascination with the case has intensified online, so too has criticism over the pace of the investigation.—
Danielle Bacher,
PEOPLE,
14 May 2026
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And his fascination with Xi hasn’t ebbed.—
Vivian Salama,
The Atlantic,
14 May 2026
Noun
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That game illuminates the tension between self and community that has fueled the show’s longevity, and reflects the preoccupations of a country that has always been torn between the two.—
Julie Beck,
The Atlantic,
12 May 2026
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For younger men, relationship stress was the biggest preoccupation, reaching a peak of concern in boys 14 to 17, and then decreasing with age while isolation and loneliness became more of an issue, peaking at 65.—
Annalisa Merelli,
STAT,
12 May 2026
Noun
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The fixation is really bizarre.—
Seth Abramovitch,
HollywoodReporter,
12 May 2026
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The series follows the composer’s arrival in late-18th-century Vienna and Salieri’s decade-long fixation on him, as admiration curdles into obsession.—
Lisa Wong Macabasco,
Vogue,
11 May 2026
Noun
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Various nemeses and side characters enter the fray, from Jim’s archenemy (and also Insta-famous) Pavel to the scally with a sneaker-sniffing fetish who guides Jim and Lucien to their next destination.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
17 May 2026
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Here, the sado-sensual yearning of the Confederacy to instantiate itself through the fetishes and reliquaries of figurative sculpture is shown as hollow, impotent, all too discomfiting, and very real.—
Horace D. Ballard,
Artforum,
22 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Woody Harrelson declaims every line, upping the relentless factor of Phil’s mania.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
18 May 2026
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Americans, broadly speaking, are in a state of protein mania.—
Ellen Cushing,
The Atlantic,
15 May 2026
Noun
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Travolta’s infectious enthusiasm carried over into the movie itself, a semi-autobiographical trifle about his childhood love of air travel.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
19 May 2026
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But even that enthusiasm seems to be waning.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
19 May 2026
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