In other words, if they’re preoccupied with something, it’s uppermost on their mind and reigns supreme on their agenda, supposing they still manage to keep an agenda.
Still in other words, it’s their top priority to eliminate whatever it is that they’ve been preoccupied with. In Sarah’s case, she wants her husband to get a new job so that they can pay the bills and get their life back on track again.
Anyways, preoccupied means pre-occupied, as if they’re already fully engaged (occupied) in some earlier event and no longer have time, attention, care to spare for anything else.
“Pre-” stands for “before”, pointing to anything that pre-exists (in existence before another event). To predict for example is to announce something happening before it actually does. To prevent, on the other hand is to stop something from happening by doing something first - prevent comes from the Latin praeventus, meaning (for one event to) “come before” (another). Or to the thinking of George W. Bush, to prevent something bad from happening is to take some pre-emptive action, hence his pre-emptive attacks on Iraq. In other words, harm them before they can harm me.
It is precisely that type of logic that has led the world to no-end of troubles. One action leads to another. Violence begets violence. Only non-action begets non-violation but you can’t expect people in positions of power to understand this.
Anyways, to prevent us from rambling off the point, let’s examine what other people are up to, or I mean, preoccupied with:
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