How to Use fixation in a Sentence

fixation

noun
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  • For the right, the fixation on Hunter Biden boils down to a few things.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 6 Dec. 2022
  • My fixation helped to pass the time, the long empty days.
    — Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 26 July 2021
  • Things moved quickly, with a lot of fixation over the right ribbon and the right box.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2024
  • The scandalous trial became THE tabloid fixation of the day.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 17 May 2021
  • And, so ended that fixation, or so some might have thought.
    — Howard Rosen, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2021
  • But the mystery of who killed Michelle Schofield is the primary fixation.
    — Laura Jane Standley, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2022
  • My leg was repaired with eight screws, a plate, and a high-strength polymer cord known as a tightrope fixation.
    — Lexi Pandell, WIRED, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The third goal of the era’s fixation on prehistory was the most selfish.
    — Stefanos Geroulanos, Twin Cities, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Shifts fixation across midline (moves gaze from left to right).
    — Emily Cook, Parents, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Dan’s fixation on Kelly and what happened to her drives him to the brink of his sanity.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Buffalo's wing fixation helped spread the dish, but the origin story is a bit hazy.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 28 July 2023
  • This fixation on race and gender plays much better with the left-wing-activist class than with the public.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Biden brought his fixation on Roosevelt into the White House.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Gilbert did not share the universal fixation with Gauff’s forehand, deemed to be her one weak spot.
    — Abby Aguirre, Vogue, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The McVicar fixation aside, the current Met season looks to be one of the liveliest in recent memory.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Geula wondered if Eggers’s fixation with the past, and his taste for the macabre, was a way of searching for his father.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Each pair comes with four sizes of sealing gels for customization, fixation wings to keep the plugs in place and a removable leash.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Nov. 2022
  • An episode of highs and lows, both in terms of how often the bits hit and in introducing season ten’s twin plot fixations.
    — Larry Fitzmaurice, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Hence the fixation on Simpson’s blunders, as well as all the burping, farting, and foul smells that punctuate the show.
    — Time, 18 Aug. 2023
  • This is why the fixation on civic activism is so misguided.
    — Time, 12 Jan. 2023
  • And yet the fixation is placed on Lively's suitability to her role.
    — Charley Ross, Glamour, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The next year, Stewart’s Earth Abides took his disaster fixation to its inevitable conclusion: the end of the world.
    — Matthew Sherrill, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
  • And her kind of fixation has lasted for several years now.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 14 May 2021
  • The Thomas fixation continues throughout the evening without him on the panel.
    — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 27 July 2021
  • The cold chain now binds nearly every corner of the earth, but Twilley, born in Britain, is right to see it as an American fixation.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
  • This rising number has led to the fixation on tunnel looks within the WNBA.
    — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 3 Sep. 2024
  • But this isn’t just the fixation of those who take issue with the technical or legal reasoning of Roe.
    — Jess Coleman, The New Republic, 8 July 2022
  • The West’s fixation on the war in Ukraine stands in contrast with its tacit disregard for the situation in Afghanistan.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 1 June 2022
  • Maddy invites Owen to her house to watch an episode together, and a fixation develops, as well as a strange bond between the two.
    — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Her past experience at McDonald's has become a fixation of Trump's, who over the weekend worked the fryer at one of the chain's restaurants in the Philadelphia area.
    — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2024

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