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Lastly, Deutsche’s note addresses the issue that has preoccupied markets most of all in recent months: costs.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 3, 2025

Speculation about how the BLS would handle last month’s figures has preoccupied economists and policymakers in recent weeks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

This push and pull between wilderness and civilized life, or wildness versus timidity, has preoccupied Brown for the duration of his career, and it is what brought Brown to his robot.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2025

The irruption of the divine into ordinary life — sometimes sublime, sometimes violent, sometimes absurd — has preoccupied this director for much of his career.

From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2021

One memory in particular has preoccupied me all morning - or rather, a fragment of a memory, a moment that has for some reason remained with me vividly through the years.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro