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  • Neuroscience of eating title Preoccupied with food: Novel neural and molecular pathways controlling eating description Forum lecture on the neurophysiology of eating, obesity, addiction and related topics by Ralph Dileone, Ph.

    Neuroscience of eating Sandra K 2006

  • Preoccupied with making money, they seemed incapable of their fathers' self-sacrificing patriotism.

    1812 and All That: A New Country at War 2011

  • Preoccupied students who were offered flawed candy bars bought 0.41 chocolate bars per person, on average.

    Week in Ideas: Christopher Shea 2011

  • Preoccupied with the immediate problem of putting out the cat, I had made it easy for whomever had come up behind me.

    Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011

  • Preoccupied with trade, Hong Kong's former British masters never saw fit to launch upheavals like the Cultural Revolution.

    Creativity Among the Commissars Nicholas Frisch 2011

  • Preoccupied with the immediate problem of putting out the cat, I had made it easy for whomever had come up behind me.

    Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011

  • Preoccupied with existence--immediate, direct, and primal--Existentialism seeks to erase all trace of the tyrannical notion of essence--that is, absolute, distinct, and unalterable identity, the kind that so often insisted it possessed the truth, like no other.

    G. Roger Denson: Political Art Timeline, 1945-1966: Postwar Art of the Left G. Roger Denson 2011

  • Preoccupied with legal matters and the extra burden of running the house's literary quarterly, the Evergreen Review, Seaver appears not to have noticed that the carnal appetites of Miller and Rechy and the willing punishments of the "Story of O" were not universally appreciated.

    He Knew It When He Saw It James Campbell 2012

  • Preoccupied with existence--immediate, direct, and primal--Existentialism seeks to erase all trace of the tyrannical notion of essence--that is, absolute, distinct, and unalterable identity, the kind that so often insisted it possessed the truth, like no other.

    G. Roger Denson: Political Art Timeline, 1945-1966: Postwar Art of the Left G. Roger Denson 2011

  • Preoccupied with the immediate problem of putting out the cat, I had made it easy for whomever had come up behind me.

    Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011

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