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  • noun Plural form of obsession.

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Examples

  • One of my side obsessions is finding the spot where that combination first really clicked.

    Crooks and cooks 2010

  • And as the first issue makes clear, the price these swaggering badasses pay for their obsessions is unpleasant -- and violent as hell.

    First-look review: Brandon and Klein’s Viking #1 | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

  • OK, regular readers of this blog might well recognise Anu and Marduk, the creation of humanity, genocidal deities, and other such features of Neolithic myth from my endless blatherings on the topic, but familiarity with my whacky obsessions is not the same as the sort of deeply-engrained onventionality that makes High Fantasy an easy, popular read.

    Strange Fiction 8 Hal Duncan 2006

  • The Beats were advance word slingers prefiguring the counterculture of the 1960s, forecasting its main obsessions and ecstasies of liberation, essentially a "youth revolt" against all that our postwar society was doing to us (even as Henry Miller in the 1940s had sensed that "another breed of men has taken over" in an air-conditioned nightmare.)

    More Ferlinghetti 2006

  • The Beats were advance word slingers prefiguring the counterculture of the 1960s, forecasting its main obsessions and ecstasies of liberation, essentially a "youth revolt" against all that our postwar society was doing to us (even as Henry Miller in the 1940s had sensed that "another breed of men has taken over" in an air-conditioned nightmare.)

    November 2006 2006

  • Besides, another of my obsessions is starting new websites.

    New weblog: Sequenced Notes 2005

  • Besides, another of my obsessions is starting new websites.

    Best Tool For the Job � Make Your PC Work (not look) More Like a Mac 2005

  • There was no room in his heart for anything except his painting and occasional, short-term obsessions.

    Flash Jayne Ann Krentz 1998

  • There was no room in his heart for anything except his painting and occasional, short-term obsessions.

    Flash Jayne Ann Krentz 1998

  • There was no room in his heart for anything except his painting and occasional, short-term obsessions.

    Flash Jayne Ann Krentz 1998

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