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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of fixate.
  • adjective psychology attached to someone or something in a neurotic or pathological manner

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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.

    America’s Elegant Decline 2007

  • Some of us, many of us, never outgrow those first impressions and remain fixated on children and teenagers.

    THE ILLUSION OF HOME AS SANCTUARY FOR CHILDREN Maggie Jochild 2007

  • 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.

    America’s Elegant Decline 2007

  • 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.

    America’s Elegant Decline 2007

  • 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.

    America’s Elegant Decline 2007

  • I do have an objection to business strategy led around by the nose by short-term fixated stock market prices.

    Tim Berry: iPhone as Classic Drama 2008

  • If historians remain fixated on "hard" evidence, the absence of these groups from the historical narrative may never be corrected.

    Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

  • I guess the short-term fixated small-minded mentality of the average S*n reader has infested here as well.

    The Guardian World News Patrick Wintour 2010

  • I guess the short-term fixated small-minded mentality of the average S*n reader has infested here as well.

    The Guardian World News Patrick Wintour 2010

  • 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 2005

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