How to Use fixate in a Sentence

fixate

verb
Definition of fixatenext
Synonyms for fixatenext
  • Now is the time to fixate on the present, not the past.
    — Amy Zegart, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Don’t fixate too much about the minute details — but don’t lose track of them either.
    — Tim Conn, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Or a deeply disturbed young woman who fixates on a pop star as a way to cope with grief?
    — Tomi Obaro, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Don't fixate on the worst-case scenario or the best-case scenario for your region.
    — Judson Jones and Monica Garrett, CNN, 12 Jan. 2022
  • For most of us, our grooming regimen fixates on the face.
    — Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 1 May 2023
  • Most of the time, Bostonians are fixated on trying to solve problems — our own, the country’s, and the world’s.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The Lions want to retrain that energy but can’t fixate too much on the recent past.
    — Orlando Sentinel Staff, Orlando Sentinel, 30 July 2022
  • Both spend most of the season fixating on each other from a distance.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Mar. 2023
  • His eyes fixated on the parents and students shuffling in before the bell.
    — Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
  • But a male student joins her class at the end of her second semester and begins to fixate on her.
    — Esther Wang, The New Republic, 5 Aug. 2021
  • That is something that I’m fixated on, for lack of a better reason.
    — Margaret Kates | Mkates@al.com, al, 6 Sep. 2023
  • But plenty of others affected by the movie still fixate on it.
    — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Instead of fixating on what their child might inherit, C. thought about the clock ticking in more ways than one.
    — Robert Kolker, New York Times, 20 July 2023
  • Having spent over two decades in the limelight, Nicholas has gained a profound understanding of life and no longer fixates on the gains and losses.
    — Billboard China, Billboard, 14 Dec. 2023
  • But Thompson was out of pocket, away from the bench and out of the game dealing with an illness and Curry’s mind was fixated on the game plan, not on himself.
    — Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2024
  • In recent years, the debates over what to do with mentally ill people tend to fixate on two extremes.
    — New York Times, 26 July 2022
  • Some turn to human connections made in their own daily lives as a way to focus on the joys in the world, rather than completely fixate on the hardships.
    — Jaden Edison, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Journalists tend to fixate on how our work is or isn’t distributed.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Advertisement So, why in the world is everybody fixated on the heat?
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 14 July 2023
  • As fans and pundits fixate on who’ll become the next coach, bear in mind that both of the Spanos Era’s golden chapters began not with the hiring of a coach but the hiring of a GM who then hired a coach.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2023
  • But people have been known to fixate and obsess and have unhealthy, unrequited feelings for the wrong people at the wrong time.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The woman sits so motionless in the courtroom that the writer must fixate on the tiniest of details, like a flexing of the fingers on the hand that allegedly wielded the gun.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2022
  • And the Rangers would be just fine with that, but he can’t get fixated on moving fast at the risk of not finishing developmental stages.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Despite being a get-on-your-feet dance party, Madonna’s mind on this greatest-hits tour seemed to be fixated on one theme: time.
    — Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Instead of fixating solely on the next goal, appreciate the smaller milestones along the way.
    — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 20 June 2023
  • Do not add up your expenses, multiply by six and fixate on that number.
    — Jessica Roy, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2022
  • Luther doesn’t not shy away from the hardships in his life, and how the media often cheapened his accomplishments by fixating on his weight.
    — Kui Mwai, Essence, 30 Jan. 2024
  • But those influencers tend to fixate on the surface of things: on lifestyle, status symbols and the spectacle of making moves.
    — Jasper Craven, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Steph Curry threw his head back from the seat on the bench and let his gaze fixate for a moment on the fans sitting behind him, perhaps to relieve his eyes from the mess unfolding in front of him.
    — Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 11 Jan. 2024
  • In turn that has led to those defending Coronado to fixate on that topic.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2021

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