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• n  a major river of western Siberia; flows generally northward and westward to the Gulf of Ob and the Kara Sea
• n  the branch of medicine dealing with childbirth and care of the mother
• v  haunt like a ghost; pursue
• v  be preoccupied with something
  She is obsessing over her weight

• Other designers may obsess about testing the limits of the hardware; Miyamoto specializes in testing the limits of imagination.
• After the birth of our kids, my wife and I proceeded to obsess about the things most parents obsess aboutschools, our wills, life insurance.
• Energy experts obsess over whether we've reached "Hubbert's peak," the point at which oil reserves are 50% depleted.

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• Ob River
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News & Articles

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• Creating an iPad experience -- on four wheels
  The largest, most expensive mobile device in most people's lives is not a smartphone or a tablet. It's their car. As microprocessors, GPS, and wireless have invaded the automobile, carmakers have begun to obsess about apps and interfaces that make such gadgetry work.
  June 13, 2013 - CNN Money
• What Conor Friedersdorf Misunderstands About Terrorism
  It goes like this: Why do we obsess over terrorism when a) guns, b) drunken drivers, c) any number of terrible diseases and d) bathtubs kill so many more people each year than radical Islamists ever have?
  June 12, 2013 - Bloomberg
• With Windows 8.1, Microsoft is aiming squarely at mobile devices
  Don't obsess over the Start button. In a world where desktop PCs are becoming dinosaurs, the real goal of Windows 8.1 is to get Microsoft's operating system onto mobile devices.
  June 12, 2013 - ZDNet

Quotes

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• Victoria Beckham in Press Trust of India
  I am fine - happy and healthy. It's irresponsible when people obsess about my shape and size. I appreciate there are young girls and women who look to me as a role model and it is simply untrue to say I do not eat and I am unhealthy,Victoria...
• Gregg Popovich in FoxReno.com
  Aishwarya and Abhishek marriage, and they marry her off to a tree to ward off 'mangalik' omen. Where on earth do they concoct such stories! Millions of media forum clarifications later, they still seek an answer to it. They obsess over it because a... Amitabh Bachchan http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amitabh_Bachchan&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGjS8eQhoNMPMEOOznf1kQVYWZaAQ Economic Times http://www.google.com/url?q=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/et-cetera/Big-B-slams-Paul-the-octopus-hoopla/articleshow/6148117.cms&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNG6Nom2YzqtkOgIe8TXcj4wYHPX3g Jul 9, 2010 69011 92024 obsess I won't obsess over it (the long rest) because it is what is, but we just have to figure out how to keep guys in shape," said San Antonio head coach Gregg Popovich, who improved to 16-5 all-time in elimination games.