fixate
verb (used without object)
to obsessively concentrate one's attention (usually followed byon ).
will fixate
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future tenseof fixate.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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And it’s natural that many of them then will fixate on the worst-case scenarios and live their lives with a sense of worry and dread.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2024
Boeing investors will fixate on 2023 free cash-flow generation, which the planemaker projected would finish between $3 billion and $5 billion.
From Reuters ● Oct. 23, 2023
When the long-awaited process of raising interest rates begins Wednesday, market observers will fixate on the precise words used in the Fed statement and during Chair Jerome H. Powell’s news conference.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 15, 2022
Your kid is already demonstrating that he will fixate on small failures and take them extremely personally.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2019
It’s an authentic global event: The upcoming meeting between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will fixate the press for better and for worse.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 5, 2017
