preoccupies
- present tense form of preoccupy (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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But at least it has a precedent, unlike the AI apocalypse that preoccupies folks now.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
This is a really critical piece that preoccupies me: what that does to our ability to organize and be in solidarity.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2023
It's an issue that preoccupies the German government too.
From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2022
Better to simply call her a writer: a person who must put into words that which preoccupies her; not for therapeutic ends, not for consolation, but with a probing concern about that which wounds us.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 2022
What preoccupies me is immediate: the separation I endure with my parents in loss.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
