preoccupy
verb (used with object)
to absorb or engross to the exclusion of other things.
are preoccupying
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present progressiveof preoccupy.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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An unremarkable-looking plan for a new factory in Poland cuts to the heart of big questions that are preoccupying governments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
So, there’s a lot that I’m wrestling with, and I don’t truthfully have answers, but this was my attempt to explore these things that are preoccupying my mind.
From The Verge ● Mar. 9, 2022
Our mainstay of treatment is to simply keep patients breathing, and two issues are preoccupying us - ventilators and oxygen.
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2020
“In elections, I really think you have to address the themes voters say are preoccupying them,” he said.
From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2016
More and more barbaric or merely bodily modes of recreation are preoccupying the leisure time that men have outside of their regular occupations in life.
From Religion And Health by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
