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to preoccupy
verb
To distract; to occupy or draw attention elsewhere.
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Such issues are known to preoccupy the president.
As he noted, race continues to preoccupy many state officials.
The issue has increasingly come to preoccupy the White House.
It's the latter that seems to preoccupy "OK Computer".
But then the idea of him began to preoccupy me, like an unsolved mystery.
But there is another deeper, perhaps more profound reason the war continues to preoccupy us.
One way to escape the afflictions of your own place is to preoccupy yourself with another's.
As to the legal questions that seemed to preoccupy Rutgers officials, the report was clear.
It seems inevitable that Chinese-American relations will increasingly come to preoccupy the world.
The perceived inadequacy of his education was later to preoccupy him and some of his critics.
Consumerism as it relates to fashion also seems to preoccupy several of the artists exhibiting here.
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