Let's draw up a list of things which preoccupy children these days.

Issues of equity in clinical research preoccupy Western ethicists and public-health officials.

And certainly he had enough to excite and preoccupy him just now.

Those latter issues are crucial, certainly, and preoccupy every Times staffer every day.

Economic stimulus, IMF funding and financial market reform will also preoccupy the gathering.

The latter prevention and pre-emption strategies will also preoccupy Wednesday's summit.

But it did not preoccupy every government department as Brexit does.

He needed something that would preoccupy his thoughts totally and utterly.

But at the moment he had other things to preoccupy him.

He had more than enough of those to preoccupy his attentions.

This, he calculated, would preoccupy Cornwallis, and prevent him moving.

We never dreamt it would preoccupy our lives as much.

In short, diet and exercise will preoccupy the minds of a large number of people.

I wasn't afraid of the repercussions; he couldn't afford to preoccupy himself with punishing me.

The conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan now preoccupy her.

Ghanim, however, was preoccupied by thoughts of his house and his goods.