How to Use fixate in a Sentence

fixate

verb
Definition of fixatenext
Synonyms for fixatenext
  • But the key is to stop fixating on what the market will do.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Like many girls her age, she was fixated on her body image.
    — Shawn McFarland, courant.com, 26 July 2019
  • 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
  • All of our members want our group to become a team that continually evolves without stagnating or fixating on one thing.
    — Natalie Morin, refinery29.com, 25 July 2019
  • Our genetic programming may tell some of us to obsess over social justice and others to fixate on external threats, but most of us care about both.
    — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 10 July 2019
  • Her brother Dani, feeling isolated, spends the summer confined to his room, fixated on Miri.
    — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 25 Sep. 2024
  • The usually-jubilant third-year safety was almost silent, his mind fixated on the opening day of training camp less than 24 hours away.
    — Parth Upadhyaya, The Denver Post, 22 July 2019
  • Yet, the play is fixated on the morality of using other people’s personal stories and passing them off as original ideas.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 1 Oct. 2024
  • The candidates did not fixate on President Trump, but his presence loomed over the stage, with each candidate using him as a foil to pitch their agendas.
    — CBS News, 27 June 2019
  • And that mind, which had spent decades thinking about people’s stories and how to tell them, became fixated on one nagging question: Why had no one ever made a film about Lee Miller?
    — Esther Zuckerman, TIME, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Now is the time to fixate on the present, not the past.
    — Amy Zegart, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Kassab said she’s been fixated on this goal for the past five years.
    — Andrew Theen | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 24 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • Emotions took over as everyone fixated on the ring in the sky.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Sposato said his critics fixate on his support for Trump.
    — Mick Dumke, ProPublica, 18 Mar. 2020
  • That is something that I’m fixated on, for lack of a better reason.
    — Margaret Kates | [email protected], al, 6 Sep. 2023
  • But plenty of others affected by the movie still fixate on it.
    — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 27 Sep. 2022

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