noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
unhealthy interest/obsession/fear etc
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Gareth had an unhealthy interest in death.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
national
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But insiders say he is keen to make it a national obsession .
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Jelani Gardner is just the latest symptom of a national obsession that is running the college game straight into the ground.
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It's turning the Games into a national obsession .
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And that national obsession with the short term has come directly from business.
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Has anything been gained by the national obsession with the Simpson affair?
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Summarize that ugly reality in five terse sentences, then cut to the real national obsession: Sun Belt weather.
unhealthy
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The representation of sexuality here is of an unhealthy obsession .
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Soon after the departure of Roszak from Peace News McGrath had quit that paper, nursing an unhealthy obsession with drugs.
■ VERB
become
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Getting the airline up and flying - proving wrong everyone who had doubted him - became an obsession .
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Whatever its source, the desire to go there had become an obsession with her.
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This painting has become a veritable obsession and he has returned to it repeatedly over the past thirty years.
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Demonstrating my attractiveness to a young intelligent woman in competition with young attractive males had become almost an obsession of mine.
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David's need for a son had become an obsession .
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One thing was certain: I must not allow the voyage to become an obsession and blind me to the risks involved.
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But she's becoming something of an obsession with Ryan, particularly since his wife's death.
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But I was already close enough to the aquatic world for it to become a lifelong obsession .
border
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I mean, excitement is one thing, but this is bordering on obsession . 1 go over to his place.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Bowman has a dangerous obsession with speed.
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Freeing the hostages became his obsession .
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I knew that if I wasn't careful, my obsession for her could destroy me.
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Julia's desire to stay slim has become an obsession .
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Picasso's obsession with death and sickness greatly influenced his work.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Are your obsessions terrestrial or eternal?
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Each group would be able to campaign for its particular obsession in public.
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Having undertaken the same journey in my own youth, I can testify to the authenticity of the obsession described.
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His real obsession was ever with the sensational effects of the titillating text.
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Not out of obsession with the abnormal; just for the pleasure.
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The gay life becomes a traumatic and life-changing obsession .
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This is the really menacing thing because in their obsession with proving themselves, they are pulling us all towards destruction.
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Whatever its source, the desire to go there had become an obsession with her.