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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Biden brought his fixation on Roosevelt into the White House.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 22 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In the last couple of years, the sport has started to nurse something of a fixation on that period, what might be termed its early modern age.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Winfrey has been open about how the media’s fixation on her weight has played a role in her feelings of self-shaming and her search for solutions.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Disease, illness and pain are horrible facts of life but the path of inward fixation is slippery.
    — Eleanor Morgan, refinery29.com, 12 Apr. 2023
  • But its fixation on illness and death also gives it a darker valence.
    — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2023
  • And that he’s seen a lot more fixation on wealth creation these days, probably because a lot of wealth has been created.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Even some Republicans seem to question the fixation on Hunter Biden.
    — Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 29 July 2023
  • This fixation on male superiority was a sign of the times not just in academia but in society at large.
    — Cara Ocobock, Scientific American, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Only Star Wars is more attuned to a whole planet's Joseph Campbell fixation.
    — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Christenberry traced his fixation to a silent face-off with a hooded Klansman in a Tuscaloosa courthouse in 1960.
    — Siddhartha Mitter, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2023
  • As her feature films got put on ice during the early, stay-at-home days of the pandemic, she became known in a new way: as a figure of intrigue and tabloid fixation.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 22 Sep. 2022
  • The range fixation makes plenty of sense, given the long charging times and the difficulty that would ensue from completely running out of charge while out in the world.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Musk appears to have a longstanding fixation on the letter X, dubbing his very first startup X.com.
    — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 24 July 2023
  • So his particular moment of tie fixation felt good to us.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 July 2022
  • With the introduction of her first-ever true pop album, Swift became not just a tabloid feature but a fixation.
    — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Women’s breasts have been a fixation of Western artists since Western art began.
    — Zoë Lescaze, New York Times, 16 May 2023
  • In both appearances, fear and fixation were present in his body language, Constantine said.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Pryor remains a fan fixation, having come in with Henderson as a top-100 prospect with a longer runway to stardom.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 2 Aug. 2022

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