obsessively
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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That Guthrie obsessively checks the naval news is seen as a mysterious quirk; no one poses the obvious question of whether someone dear to him might be at sea.
Instead of decamping to Thibodaux, La., for football’s most exclusive family reunion, Mendoza—a transfer from the University of California—spent his summer in Bloomington, obsessively learning the playbook of his new coach, Curt Cignetti.
This downturn has impacted his grades, competitive swimming status and overall focus; he obsessively doodles eerie clusters of spiders and draws a disturbing map of his school’s floor plan.
From Los Angeles Times
I’m someone who falls into doing rituals for a while, almost obsessively, until I replace them with different ones.
From Los Angeles Times
Lane Kiffin, by contrast, bailed on his players and now resembles a renegade pirate at the helm of a flashy speedboat — fast, loud, brash and obsessively searching for buried treasure.
From Los Angeles Times
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