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Newly converted Chinamaxxers are obsessing over daily habits that are as second-nature to many Chinese people as brushing their teeth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

But it may not be the one that investors are obsessing over.

From Barron's • Nov. 22, 2025

The local media know what shifts newspapers - and it ain't the tourists, no matter how much the rest of us are obsessing about them.

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2025

Tumblr users are obsessing over “Goncharov,” a 1973 Scorsese film starring Robert DeNiro as a Russian hit man.

From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2022

Cannot they see that by substituting morbid sentiment for honest Rabelaisianism they are obsessing the minds of every one with a matter which after all is only one aspect of life?

From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by Powys, John Cowper