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Adjective
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Football has become obsessed with globalisation, but the sport — as opposed to the business — is still fuelled by what happens at a local level.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
3 July 2025 -
Studios is out with Alicia Silverstone in erotic thriller Pretty Thing as a successful executive in a torrid affair with a younger man (Karl Glusman) who becomes obsessed with her.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
3 July 2025
Adjective
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While working on the opening of this article about the creative environment, my mind became fixated on those two words: stuck and stuckness.—
Renae Gregoire,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
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Many Democratic thinkers have concluded that the party had become too fixated on Trump, without connecting with voters.—
Amie Parnes,
The Hill,
18 June 2025
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For Bertram, whose family winery has roots deep in the terraced vineyards of the valley, the night was a blur of frantic decisions and terrifying uncertainty.—
Christopher Elliott,
Forbes.com,
13 July 2025
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Huntington Park High School Principal Carlos Garibaldi was preparing to host a graduation on his campus when frantic colleagues radioed him: Immigration is coming.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
11 July 2025
Adjective
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Now, mere days after its discovery, frenzied follow-up work by astronomers around the world to further scrutinize A11pI3Z and look for additional apparitions in archival observations has given the object a new, more official name—Comet 3I/ATLAS—for the telescope that first discovered it.—
Nora Bradford,
Scientific American,
3 July 2025
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This glimpse into one of the sport’s most impressive stars (at the time of writing, Fritz ranks fifth in the world in men’s singles tennis) is only made possible by catching him at a smaller, less frenzied tournament.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
3 July 2025
Adjective
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In between takes, Zaki, in real life Sayed Akbari, was receiving frantic calls from his distraught nieces in Kabul because schools for girls were shutting down.—
Sonya Rehman,
Forbes.com,
8 July 2025
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The distraught woman can be seen sprinting away from the scene in distress, with one of her sneakers appearing to have fallen off during the terrifying ordeal.—
Michael Dorgan,
FOXNews.com,
5 July 2025
Adjective
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Christina MacSweeney, The Dance and the Fire Catapult, July 29 In Saldaña Paris’s ambitious new novel, three friends return to Cuernavaca, Mexico, a city on fire—wild fires and, soon enough, a kind of hysterical dancing compulsion overcoming the population.—
Literary Hub
July 1,
Literary Hub,
1 July 2025
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Today, that war is paused under a tenuous ceasefire, and despite the hopes and near hysterical levels of speculation, the regime remains in power.—
Sanam Vakil,
Time,
26 June 2025
Adjective
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So watch for seemingly irrational behavior and erratic tactical moves, as leadership is unafraid to confuse customers and take outsized capital risks.—
Forrester,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2025
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As Reva relates the stories of her three main characters—including one whose true passion is snail conservation—her novel hums with bruised faith in the irrational power of hope, whether for peace, love, endangered species, or familial reconciliation.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
23 June 2025
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“Monomaniacal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monomaniacal. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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