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- noun Plural form of
preoccupation .
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Examples
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As 2008 winds down, one of the medias favorite preoccupations is to compile “Best Of” lists for the past year and “Predictions” of what may come to pass for the next.
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With the help of psychotherapy and with the passage of time, his hypochondria eased and he began to show “displacement,” the strategy of shifting preoccupations from a painful source to more neutral ground.
What Makes Us Happy? 2009
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Human geography is a subject concerned with issues of social, cultural and political organization; its main preoccupations are power relations, concepts of space and different means of political intervention.
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With the help of psychotherapy and with the passage of time, his hypochondria eased and he began to show “displacement,” the strategy of shifting preoccupations from a painful source to more neutral ground.
What Makes Us Happy? 2009
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Old Ideas proves that Cohen's long-term preoccupations with sex, death and salvation have endured.
Leonard Cohen shows there's life in the old dog yet with launch of new album 2012
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They have already presided over such a huge sweep of time as to make all our short-term preoccupations seem inconsequential.
The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006
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They have already presided over such a huge sweep of time as to make all our short-term preoccupations seem inconsequential.
The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006
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They have already presided over such a huge sweep of time as to make all our short-term preoccupations seem inconsequential.
The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006
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They have already presided over such a huge sweep of time as to make all our short-term preoccupations seem inconsequential.
The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006
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Among my own public preoccupations is the question of nationalism, its pitfalls and its virtues, because my sense of history has impelled the conviction that Canada needs a new and particularly positive nationalism.
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