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- verb   Simple past tense and past participle of 
fixate . - adjective psychology  
attached to someone or something in aneurotic orpathological manner 
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Examples
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Today, while we remain fixated on street fighting in Baghdad, the militaries of China, India, South Korea, and Japan are modernizing, and Russia has maintained and subsidized its military research-and - development base by selling weapons to China and others.
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Some of us, many of us, never outgrow those first impressions and remain fixated on children and teenagers.
THE ILLUSION OF HOME AS SANCTUARY FOR CHILDREN Maggie Jochild 2007
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Today, while we remain fixated on street fighting in Baghdad, the militaries of China, India, South Korea, and Japan are modernizing, and Russia has maintained and subsidized its military research-and - development base by selling weapons to China and others.
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Today, while we remain fixated on street fighting in Baghdad, the militaries of China, India, South Korea, and Japan are modernizing, and Russia has maintained and subsidized its military research-and - development base by selling weapons to China and others.
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Today, while we remain fixated on street fighting in Baghdad, the militaries of China, India, South Korea, and Japan are modernizing, and Russia has maintained and subsidized its military research-and - development base by selling weapons to China and others.
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I do have an objection to business strategy led around by the nose by short-term fixated stock market prices.
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If historians remain fixated on "hard" evidence, the absence of these groups from the historical narrative may never be corrected.
Gutenber-e Help Page 2005
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I guess the short-term fixated small-minded mentality of the average S*n reader has infested here as well.
The Guardian World News Patrick Wintour 2010
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I guess the short-term fixated small-minded mentality of the average S*n reader has infested here as well.
The Guardian World News Patrick Wintour 2010
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I assume you’re yet again fixated on my sexual habits, or what you fantasize those might be …
Think Progress » As New Orleans Drowned, Chertoff Was Focused On Avian Flu and Immigration 2005
 
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