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are obsessions
noun
A compulsive or irrational preoccupation.
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They are obsessions.
At St. Joseph, where a quality strategy was first embraced in the late 1980's, measurement, standardization and analysis are obsessions.
Rarer, but still significant, are obsessions with the body and physical symptoms, religious and blasphemous thoughts, unwanted sexual thoughts and thoughts of carrying out acts of violence.
Diets and exercise equipment are obsessions, but they can be run through as quickly as a platter of buffalo wings on a football Sunday.
Of such small thoughts are obsessions born!
Individual departments and workers get into the nitty-gritty of setting and hitting targets at weekly meetings called "small staff". Setting standards and making forecasts are obsessions here, and all of the numbers start with line employees.
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Sensory phenomena were described as being as more severe than were obsessions by 102(15.7%) patients.
Fictitious crushes can quickly grow to be obsessions.
What is obsession?
It was obsession.
This is not "criticism", this is obsession.
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