verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
about
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The longer you provide wifely comforts while he obsesses about this woman, the worse it's going to be.
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Fashion models are the belles of the pop cultural ball: They are fawned over, obsessed about , prayed to.
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They obsess about it, the black art of stealing elections.
so
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Yet no country is so obsessed by race.
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And although alcohol is forbidden, rarely has there been a culture so obsessed with drinking.
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Nor are women so fixated by visual cues, so obsessed with physical rivalry.
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But today, some pentecostal preachers seem so obsessed with the techniques of rapture that they have forgotten the original message.
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The last nagging question is would we be so obsessed with the Simpson case if Nicole were black?
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The money with which she was so obsessed was the money he had made from his play ten years before.
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Emperor Charlemagne was so obsessed with her beauty, he continually harassed her.
■ NOUN
idea
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Alfred was intensely ambitious, obsessed with the idea of becoming rich, and channeled all his energy into his career.
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By its very nature, working for a leader is working for a person obsessed with an idea or agenda.
man
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Quaid plays Frank as an obsessed man , haggard with the burden of his job and with personal worries.
weight
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We are cruel to ourselves and cripple ourselves by constantly obsessing about our weight .
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Black and Latina women tend to be much less obsessed about their weight than white women.
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But if beauty on a grand scale chooses to live fully, rather than obsess about weight , whose problem is it?
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We are not obsessed with our weight .
■ VERB
become
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People who fell into these categories were similarly treated by a society that had become obsessed by power and success.
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He soon became obsessed with being part of the pop world, any way he could.
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It is told from the point of view of four boys who become obsessed with five beautiful sisters.
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Arax, then 15, became obsessed with the murder, which was never solved.
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The media have become obsessed with questions of what ministers knew and when they knew it.
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When the bones of Sheriff Wade are discovered, Sam becomes obsessed with learning if his father was the killer.
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In the remaining three weeks before departure I became obsessed about the training required to handle a week with the Springboks.
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Three slowly becomes obsessed with cooking, cleaning, nice sweaters and the little specks of food stuck between teeth.
seem
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He seems obsessed by the sheer potency of poetry.
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It was the side that seemed unnecessarily obsessed with the dark, seedy side of life.
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But today, some pentecostal preachers seem so obsessed with the techniques of rapture that they have forgotten the original message.
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We seem obsessed as a nation with school failure, with horror stories, with ridicule.
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It is a subject that seems to obsess him.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Some women obsess about their thighs and stomachs.
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The idea that she was being punished began to obsess her.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And he becomes obsessed with this tape.
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Arax, then 15, became obsessed with the murder, which was never solved.
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It was the side that seemed unnecessarily obsessed with the dark, seedy side of life.
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Sabich is obsessed, you said.
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The intermittent, flickering reality that obsesses Gael is, from the Catholic perspective, itself but a delusion.
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The longer you provide wifely comforts while he obsesses about this woman, the worse it's going to be.
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The more our rational faculty is suppressed, the more obsessed we are by it.
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Will the next millennium see man obsessed by athletic entertainment to the exclusion of other kinds of culture?