How to Use fixate in a Sentence

fixate

verb
Definition of fixatenext
Synonyms for fixatenext
  • Now is the time to fixate on the present, not the past.
    — Amy Zegart, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2023
  • And some people choose to fixate on some of those things.
    — EW.com, 2 Dec. 2024
  • But the key is to stop fixating on what the market will do.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Kassab said she’s been fixated on this goal for the past five years.
    — Andrew Theen | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 24 Nov. 2019
  • But Arash seemed fixated on the staircase and aspects of the first floor.
    — Eric Adler, kansascity, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Oh, and Claudius just so happens to have the green eyes that Archie was so fixated on.
    — refinery29.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Don’t fixate too much about the minute details — but don’t lose track of them either.
    — Tim Conn, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Or a deeply disturbed young woman who fixates on a pop star as a way to cope with grief?
    — Tomi Obaro, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Sadly, there are men out there who do fixate on such things.
    — Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 6 June 2024
  • Don't fixate on the worst-case scenario or the best-case scenario for your region.
    — Judson Jones and Monica Garrett, CNN, 12 Jan. 2022
  • To be clear, there is no need to or fixate upon this mistake.
    — Johnny C. Taylor Jr., USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2020
  • At that point, customers are less likely to fixate on a hit to the wallet that's still weeks away.
    — Rachel Siegel, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2018
  • And then my eyes just turned fast to the President, fixated on him.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 14 July 2024
  • Turning more than few heads in a town that has long been fixated on the Lakers?
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2019
  • For most of us, our grooming regimen fixates on the face.
    — Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 1 May 2023
  • Most of the time, Bostonians are fixated on trying to solve problems — our own, the country’s, and the world’s.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2023
  • But the Commodores have too much depth to get rattled this close to a goal they've been fixated on all season.
    — Eric Single, SI.com, 24 June 2019
  • Emotions took over as everyone fixated on the ring in the sky.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Why does the world remain fixated on the ideas of a man who helped to produce so much suffering?
    — The Economist, 3 May 2018
  • Like many girls her age, she was fixated on her body image.
    — Shawn McFarland, courant.com, 26 July 2019
  • This stems partly from customers fixating on how many hours of free time a game will chew up.
    — Craig Fehrman, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2018
  • The Lions want to retrain that energy but can’t fixate too much on the recent past.
    — Orlando Sentinel Staff, Orlando Sentinel, 30 July 2022
  • Both spend most of the season fixating on each other from a distance.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The seething lyrics fixate on the lowliness of the human condition.
    — Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2021
  • That, in turn, left him fixated on the idea of going to Borneo and living like a native Penan tribesman.
    — Erik Spanberg, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Mar. 2018
  • His eyes fixated on the parents and students shuffling in before the bell.
    — Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
  • But a male student joins her class at the end of her second semester and begins to fixate on her.
    — Esther Wang, The New Republic, 5 Aug. 2021
  • But TikTokers fixated instead on how the bob looked from the back.
    — Rachel Raposas, People.com, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Both groups fixate on the idea of romantic love, which seems exclusionary and, paradoxically, limiting, something true love never is.
    — Colin Fleming, New York Daily News, 14 Feb. 2025
  • It's gone beyond the cup, too: Coffee grounds make an amazing body scrub; coffee is the perfect ingredient in an eye cream for de-puffing under-eyes; and some people are fixated on coffee as an ingredient in… wait for it… enemas.
    — Margaux Anbouba, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2025

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