Sample Sentences for
fixate
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fixate as in:  fixated on football

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    Whenever Walt McCandless, in his stern fashion, would dispense a fatherly admonishment to Chris, Carine, or their half siblings, Chris would fixate on his father's own less than sterling behavior many years earlier and silently denounce him as a sanctimonious hypocrite.  (source)
    fixate = focus
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    He also had an extreme fixation on the 1980s, the decade during which he'd been a teenager.  (source)
    fixation = an obsession
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    Several times I've looked up to find one fixated on me.  (source)
    fixated = intensely focused
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    "Mina's fixated on birds just now," said Mrs. McKee.  (source)
    fixated = compulsively preoccupied (can't stop thinking about)
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    Which probably explains his fixation on the Trials.†  (source)
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    I admit I'm overly logical about a lot of things, but I firmly believe that one of my most appropriate fixations has been to manage time well.†  (source)
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    Was it normal to fixate on strangers in this particular vivid, fevered way?†  (source)
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    It will keep your mind from fixating on it.†  (source)
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    He fixates on the "6" on Doleman's jersey, the way a basketball defender stares at the midsection of the dribbling opponent.†  (source)
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    Liesel watched Hans Junior in the face, fixated on the thinness of his lips and the rocky line of his bottom teeth.  (source)
    fixated = intensely focused
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    He couldn't begin to comprehend, now, how far off the track he was with his baptismal fixation.†  (source)
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    As you are aware, you yourself are the focus of Miss Chase's more persistent fixations.†  (source)
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    Why fixate on garbage like the rate of warden employment when there were serial killers to discuss?†  (source)
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