Both Uses
fixate
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Flags of Our Fathers
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- Belle's fixation on Harlon's place in the photograph, though, remained unshakable.†
Chpt 17. *
- Belle—haunted Belle, ravaged Belle, tireless, fixated, unrelenting Belle—had been right all along.†
Chpt 17.
Definitions:
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(fixate as in: fixated on football) overly focused
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Fixation can reference chemical bonding (especially of Nitrogen in the soil), or an arrested stage of development theorized by Freud (as in oral fixation), or (especially in medicine) the activity of fastening something firmly in position.