Example Sentences

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There was relief, too, inside Fox, as it was spared more of what one employee called “a traumatic” episode that had preoccupied Fox’s rank and file.

From Washington Post • Apr. 19, 2023

The idea of obtaining the Eichmann tapes had preoccupied him ever since, he said.

From New York Times • Jul. 4, 2022

No one in my family had ever seen the video, but my Jewish roots had preoccupied me for years.

From Salon • Feb. 21, 2016

The Viet Nam war had preoccupied the U.S. with Asia, almost to the exclusion of its historic concern with Europe.

From Time Magazine Archive

While the molecular description of the gene clarified the mechanism of the transmission of heredity, it only deepened the puzzle that had preoccupied Thomas Morgan in the 1920s.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee