monomaniacal

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for monomaniacal
Adjective
  • Football has become obsessed with globalisation, but the sport — as opposed to the business — is still fuelled by what happens at a local level.
    Oliver Kay, New York Times, 3 July 2025
  • Studios is out with Alicia Silverstone in erotic thriller Pretty Thing as a successful executive in a torrid affair with a younger man (Karl Glusman) who becomes obsessed with her.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 3 July 2025
Adjective
  • While working on the opening of this article about the creative environment, my mind became fixated on those two words: stuck and stuckness.
    Renae Gregoire, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • Many Democratic thinkers have concluded that the party had become too fixated on Trump, without connecting with voters.
    Amie Parnes, The Hill, 18 June 2025
Adjective
  • For Bertram, whose family winery has roots deep in the terraced vineyards of the valley, the night was a blur of frantic decisions and terrifying uncertainty.
    Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 13 July 2025
  • Huntington Park High School Principal Carlos Garibaldi was preparing to host a graduation on his campus when frantic colleagues radioed him: Immigration is coming.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2025
Adjective
  • This glimpse into one of the sport’s most impressive stars (at the time of writing, Fritz ranks fifth in the world in men’s singles tennis) is only made possible by catching him at a smaller, less frenzied tournament.
    Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 3 July 2025
  • Now, mere days after its discovery, frenzied follow-up work by astronomers around the world to further scrutinize A11pI3Z and look for additional apparitions in archival observations has given the object a new, more official name—Comet 3I/ATLAS—for the telescope that first discovered it.
    Nora Bradford, Scientific American, 3 July 2025
Adjective
  • In between takes, Zaki, in real life Sayed Akbari, was receiving frantic calls from his distraught nieces in Kabul because schools for girls were shutting down.
    Sonya Rehman, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
  • The distraught woman can be seen sprinting away from the scene in distress, with one of her sneakers appearing to have fallen off during the terrifying ordeal.
    Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 5 July 2025
Adjective
  • In her almost 50 years in the role, Marlena’s trials and tribulations have included falling out of a window, hysterical amnesia, kidnapping, being targeted by serial killers, being replaced by an unhinged lookalike, and, most famously, two demonic possessions.
    Victoria Edel, People.com, 15 July 2025
  • Their beef frequently manifested in public, with insults that ranged from cutting to hysterical in the press, sometimes tipping into more violent incidents, including one involving a cricket bat.
    Paula Mejía, Vulture, 5 July 2025
Adjective
  • In the case of mania, a mental health symptom where patients experience irrational self-belief and happiness, models responded correctly 80% of the time.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 13 July 2025
  • This tracks with an observation made by the journalist David Epstein, who writes in Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World that athletes from tiny towns have irrational levels of success.
    Henry Abbott, The Atlantic, 12 July 2025
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“Monomaniacal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monomaniacal. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

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