How To Use Preoccupy In A Sentence
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But at least by bearding MacDiarmid, Muir drew out into the open the issue of language which continues to occupy - if not preoccupy - Scottish poets today.
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However much we preoccupy ourselves with the pictorial features of Silas' birds, the death and decomposition that she analogizes, and which holds each of us enrapt, is ultimately significant of the death and decomposition of the human self.
G. Roger Denson: Holocaust and Redemption in the Photography of Susan Silas
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Being with friends, entertaining and creating a luxurious setting all preoccupy you.
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Murders and attempted murders of state officials became almost routine, preoccupying and slowing down state administrators and inviting reprisals or, at least, harsh policies.
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Economic concerns are preoccupying the voters in this election.
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It is not only the formal, but also the processual and transitory elements of human situations that preoccupy the dramaturgists.
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You don't need to be Freud to guess what's preoccupying their subconscious.
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Why do sectarian issues so preoccupy these young people?
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I talk about things that preoccupy me, but I've got nothing significant to add to the greater good.
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The might-have-beens preoccupy us as a random natural disaster never can.
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Something seems to be preoccupying her at the moment.
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Have they swallowed lies, had the facts withheld, or merely found their everyday lives too preoccupying to allow them much time for careful examination of these things?
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What kind of ideas or things are preoccupying you or inspiring you now in the work you're creating?
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How does this project fit into a larger view of your practice and some of the enduring issues that have driven your work and continue to preoccupy you?
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Idealised, geometric plans and an architectural vocabulary drawn from quite different building types - mausolea and monuments - were to preoccupy him.
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Crime and the fear of crime preoccupy the community.
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What is preoccupying the council officials at the moment is where to get a fat cheque to pay the bloated workforce the salary arrears and then clear the terminal benefits to the majority that have opted to be retrenched.
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Treatment is tailored to the specific concerns that preoccupy each person.
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And the final thought to preoccupy me was about a wealthy aquaintance who was devastated about tearing her meniscus cartilage of the knee just before her trip to their second house in Vail, and what the hell was she going to DO all week while her family skied?
Penny Love Hoff: What to Do When Your Brain White-Knuckles You
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This reflects the fact the subjects other than food have tended to preoccupy classical scholars.
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Rita is not a mere love interest but a heroine, and her presence brings a refreshing jolt of practicality that contrasts with the mind games that preoccupy the male characters.
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I know that there's a lot of things that I really could be doing with this, but I'm not - every time I seem to put pen to paper, this is the stuff that's preoccupying me.
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This question continues to haunt us, and Moynihan's arguments about black culture still preoccupy and divide academics.
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The implementation of the 1996 act will continue to preoccupy Powell for the duration of his time as commissioner.
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What is preoccupying the council officials at the moment is where to get a fat cheque to pay the bloated workforce those salary arrears.
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But these problems, the ones that preoccupy people in their daily lives, are to do with the fact that the transport system isn't good enough.
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Crime and the fear of crime preoccupy the community.
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The report says that technologies for mitigating — rather than adapting to — climate change dominate because they preoccupy the more advanced developing countries and are potentially more lucrative.
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For a long time, going home to Florence had been my one and only aim, preoccupying me to the exclusion of all else.
TIME OF THE WOLF
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It looks like the rising number of minorities in the prison system is a chronic problem that will preoccupy us for a long time.
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Economic concerns are preoccupying the voters in this election.
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We may even try to preoccupy ourselves with devotions in a way that shields us from the need for active self-surrender.
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Something seems to be preoccupying her at the moment.
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The imminent arrival of January's annual pain in the wallet, otherwise known as the electricity bill, is an example of the mundane logistics of life that are preoccupying me.
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She envisions a time when the writing and travel will not preoccupy her so and she can retreat on a piece of land and create her own garden, raising her own food.
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Our flight from rationality is evidenced in other panics which currently preoccupy us.
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But rhetoric is more than big words and trope identification - and more than the major tropes that preoccupy unscholarly critics.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Were it possible to bring about the decentralisation which is to-day preoccupying minds lacking in foresight, the achievement would promptly have for consequence the most sanguinary disorders.
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
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Precisely what the housekeeper would have ready for them was the matter preoccupying Carolyn's mind at the moment.
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The outcome will preoccupy historians for centuries.
