preoccupy
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- v engage or engross the interest or attention of beforehand or occupy urgently or obsessively
- v occupy or take possession of beforehand or before another or appropriate for use in advance
- That story, rich in darkly ambiguous nuance, would have been more than enough to preoccupy Eastwood's attention for a couple of years.
- The impeachment question may preoccupy the House for most of the summer, but the Democratic leadership believes that, barring some dramatic turn in favor of the President, the .
- It was one of those stupefyingly banal crimes the result of an argument with a construction worker that preoccupy the tabloids and make the rest of us think long, hard and .