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fixation

(histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body the activity of fastening something firmly in position (= obsession) an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone (= arrested development) an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely

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I know I have a mother fixation, but it's slight.
Without my knowing anything about it. my rough guess would be that he has a fixation on you.
A fixation.
Wait a minute, I can't remember more than that. A fixation?
You're a fixation.
Please stop following me around, fixation or no fixation.
It's a fixation.
It's a fixation with him!
Such a fixation must have sprung from an erotic incident.
The child's fixation on the parent of the opposite sex.that infantile eroticism reaches its climax.
This man was selected due to his fixation on an image from his past.
The persistent, single-minded fixation on one idea.
It's a stupid, childish, insane fixation.
A fixation?
Please stop following me around, fixation or no fixation. I've had enough.
He seems to be suffering from a deep-rooted guilt fixation.
I'm not so sure you're not really insane with that kissing fixation of yours.
My housekeeper has a fixation.
It's a fixation with him.
A single-minded fixation on one idea.
I really can't understand why you persist in your fixation, and I can't see why you let that girl haunt you, or why this place should hang you up.
He's still got his fixation. - Yep.
But you want me to disrupt our lives for the second time in a couple of months on some fixation you've gotten.
Now, all these things together have produced a fixation, a barrier in the patient's subconscious mind. which is now preventing her full recovery. It is this barrier which we now have to break down.
I'm going to suggest to her the way to conquer this fixation.
She's been suffering from a fixation of her brother.
Always the movies! He lives on bread and movies. It's a fixation with him!
It's a fixation! - Fixation, my ass!

News and current affairs

If we are to have a constructive dialogue about the smartest policy responses to global warming, we need to replace our fixation on far-fetched, Armageddon scenarios with realism about the true costs of dealing with this challenge.
The government's fixation on weiwen, or stability maintenance, has resulted in China becoming the world's only important country whose official internal-security budget is larger than its official national-defense budget.
Out goes the fusty old inflation-targeting regime, with its fixation on the consumer price index and disregard for financial-sector imbalances.
But, increasingly, the fixation on credit reflects the work's potential monetary value.
Is science or society well served by a fixation on prizes and on nurturing a culture of extreme competition?
Fixation on the deficit will induce cutbacks in social spending, worsening inequality.
When I first visited India as an American government official in the late 1970's, I was struck by my Indian hosts' fixation on gaining equal status with China.
This leads us to examining India's current fixation with GDP growth as a national panacea.
America's fixation on the renminbi is a classic case of political denial.
But that is difficult to achieve in a context of deleveraging and fixation on debt.
Our fixation with the future of global structures and systems is evident everywhere - in the news and at conferences, on bestseller lists, even in popular television shows.

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