Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of fixate.
- adj. psychology attached to someone or something in a neurotic or pathological manner
Examples
“Today, while we remain fixated on street fighting in Baghdad, the militaries of China, India, South Korea, and Japan are modernizing, and Russia has maintained and subsidized its military research-and - development base by selling weapons to China and others.”
“Some of us, many of us, never outgrow those first impressions and remain fixated on children and teenagers.”
“I do have an objection to business strategy led around by the nose by short-term fixated stock market prices.”
“If historians remain fixated on "hard" evidence, the absence of these groups from the historical narrative may never be corrected.”
“I guess the short-term fixated small-minded mentality of the average S*n reader has infested here as well.”
“I assume you’re yet again fixated on my sexual habits, or what you fantasize those might be …”
Think Progress » As New Orleans Drowned, Chertoff Was Focused On Avian Flu and Immigration
“And at that point, the stories get what's called fixated, in the scholarship community.”
“In 2009, U.S. cables featured concerns that Pakistan had tolerated an alliance of militants who attack U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, that its army remained "fixated" on its nemesis India, and that Pakistan had made little progress on U.S. requests that it curb financing for the domestic militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba or prosecute it for a 2008 attack in Mumbai.”
The Washington Post: In WikiLeaks cables from Pakistan, U.S. officials struggle for leverage
“The mother of octuplets said she was "fixated" on having children, as pictures of the eight babies were unveiled for the first time ...”
“Canadian Cynic: It's the word "fixated" that did it for me, Sara.”
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