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
What made tech billionaires so appealing to him as a subject matter is their obsession with scale.
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Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 30 May 2025
My cat is the 'star' of the show, technically, due to his obsession with the dogs.
—Virginia Chamlee, People.com, 25 May 2025
The trend is similar to previous summertime obsessions with tomatoes and strawberries.
—Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 21 May 2025
Others block entire afternoons for their obsession.
—Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for obsession
Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 30 May 2025
My cat is the 'star' of the show, technically, due to his obsession with the dogs.
—Virginia Chamlee, People.com, 25 May 2025
The trend is similar to previous summertime obsessions with tomatoes and strawberries.
—Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 21 May 2025
Others block entire afternoons for their obsession.
—Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for obsession
Recent Examples of Synonyms for obsession
Noun
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The project represents the state’s largest effort to date to address the environmental problems plaguing the Salton Sea, which has been steadily retreating and leaving growing stretches of dusty lake bottom exposed to the desert winds.—
Ian James,
Los Angeles Times,
24 May 2025
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Reco’s Approach: Bringing Shadow AI into the Light Reco addresses the Shadow AI problem by assisting organizations in monitoring, controlling, and securing every AI application in use, whether authorized or not.—
Maria Williams,
USA Today,
24 May 2025
Noun
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On the one hand, the opening scene begins in a car, the most familiar of locations in a filmography that has always shared Abbas Kiarostami’s fascination with automobiles as places that are both public and private all at once.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
20 May 2025
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One of them is a conversation with Armando, which holds great fascination and curiosity for one of the women, Flavia (Laura Lufési), and could be a key to unlocking all the mystery.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
18 May 2025
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Why the preoccupation with whether transgender women are stealing places from women born female when women are more likely to have their practices curbed by men’s and boys’ teams kicking them off their training pitches?—
Katie Whyatt,
New York Times,
2 May 2025
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Join 4 others in the comments View Comments The threat posed to living artists is now Walker’s main preoccupation.—
Oscar Holland,
CNN Money,
27 Apr. 2025
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Silicon Valley’s visionaries are, in this view, not all cold rationalists; many of them are dreamers and believers whose fixations constitute, in Becker’s view, a spiritual narrative as much as a scientific one—a new theology of technology.—
John Kaag,
The Atlantic,
28 May 2025
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Reductions in pupil responsiveness to light, accuracy and speed of rapid fixation eye movements, and the ability to verbally read aloud a series of numbers appear to be reasonably reliable markers for Alzheimer’s disease, Singman notes.—
Elizabeth Yuko,
Flow Space,
27 May 2025
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Along the way, the orchid became the subject of scientific speculation (including by Charles Darwin), a fetish in the Victorian era’s burgeoning consumer culture, and an example of the excesses of imperialist extraction.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
19 May 2025
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That reputation foreshadows the series’ fetish for both-sidesism and centrist consensus, at one point explicitly equating the right’s embrace of blatant untruths with the left’s enthusiasm for pronouns.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
20 Feb. 2025
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The discovery of a Brazilian orchid with huge red-and-purple flowers in the early nineteenth century set off a mania for the exotic plants in Victorian England.—
Jenny Uglow,
The New York Review of Books,
22 May 2025
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Kissam was later diagnosed with bipolar disorder, which can cause periods of mania and depression.—
Mary Ramsey,
Charlotte Observer,
21 May 2025
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Such scams exploit investor enthusiasm and poor regulation to inflate prices before insiders sell off their holdings.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 May 2025
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This campaign has energized consumption enthusiasm among younger demographics.—
Footwear News,
Footwear News,
23 May 2025
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“Obsession.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obsession. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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