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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
preoccupy .
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Examples
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It preoccupies me for a few seconds but the exhilaration of being pushed down the hallway is irresistible.
Valerie Sobel: Andre Sobel Essay Winner: Cancer Isn't a Battle you Fight by Yourself Valerie Sobel 2010
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It preoccupies me for a few seconds but the exhilaration of being pushed down the hallway is irresistible.
Valerie Sobel: Andre Sobel Essay Winner: Cancer Isn't a Battle you Fight by Yourself Valerie Sobel 2010
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"Gloom, doom, doom and gloom preoccupies the markets today."
Crude Tumbles to 1-Year Low Christian Berthelsen 2011
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The way in which he moves and stops is shaped by what he preoccupies him, which is in turn shaped by the fact that he moves and stops.
Every Thing is a Hole in a Thing That It Is Not (A Theoretical Fiction) stephen hastings-king 2011
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The risks posed by orbiting debris, a topic that increasingly preoccupies some military and aerospace experts, are significantly greater.
Satellite Debris Could Hit U.S. Andy Pasztor 2011
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Wanting to be prepared for the future is a wonderful thing, but not when it so preoccupies us that we forget that the only time we really have is the now.
Lighten Up Peter Walsh 2011
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But what preoccupies him is the inadequacy of our conventions and practices for organizing the wildly expanding array of digital objects that populate the cybersphere.
Rethinking the Digital Future Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011
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It could be something negative, but it could also be about something that preoccupies you, an event that is happening or has happened, a confrontation with a person ...
analyse me nathreee 2010
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America was projecting this image to a nervous world eager for U.S. leadership and worried that the legacy of Sept. 11 still preoccupies the country, keeping it from addressing other, tricky global dangers.
When the Towers Came Down John Bussey 2011
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Considering how often hair preoccupies the human race, there is little of note about the subject online.
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