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Recent Examples of idée fixe This is perhaps why their partnership remains an idee fixe so many decades later. Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2021
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Noun
  • Like the TikTok identified by the Anti-Defamation League, these accounts shared photos and videos of the Columbine shooting and other mass shootings and appeared to show an obsession with these events, researchers said.
    Will Carless, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Sometimes, this obsession is driven by external pressures or the desire for validation.
    Mark Travers, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Chastity can be practiced as an extremely private fetish!
    Mikelle Street, Them, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Jake’s made an occupational fetish of going where the danger is.
    Andy Andersen, Vulture, 15 Feb. 2024
Noun
  • For spring/summer, a number of brands are adding to the sophisticated sportiness seen in ready-to-wear, fueling fashion’s post-Olympics athletic fixation.
    Madeline Fass, Vogue, 20 Dec. 2024
  • The point being that there’s a lot of fixation on the low end of the funnel from finance teams, from marketing teams, that there’s all this leverage.
    Megan Poinski, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024

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“Idée fixe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/id%C3%A9e%20fixe. Accessed 1 Jan. 2025.

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