FIXATE (ON OR UPON) Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

fixate (on or upon)

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Definition of fixate (on or upon)

as in to stick (to)

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For Hernandez, the altar is a chance to grieve, remember and find strength in one another.

— CBS News, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026
Others remembered LePage’s governorship in a positive light and planned to vote for him this fall.

— David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 27 Oct. 2026

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Lexington is the sort of place where the arrival of your luggage at a baggage claim carousel is accompanied by the bugle strains of the call to the post, where Citation Boulevard hugs the north edges of the city and Man o’War Boulevard the south.

— Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2026
Four years ago, crowds filled the central square of this southern port city, draped in Ukrainian flags and hugging the troops who had ended months of Russian occupation.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 29 Oct. 2026

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