focus
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By Monday the focus of the wet weather is likely to be across Scotland, with sunny spells developing elsewhere.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Bonfig has outlined a number of plans aimed at propping up Best Buy’s business, like new medium- and small-format locations, a broader assortment and a focus on the company’s advertising business.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Last year, Apple paused further development of its Vision Pro headset to focus on smartglasses to rival Meta’s Ray-Ban products.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
This means a renewed focus on debt, trade, financial stability and banking regulation, Josh Lipsky, chair of international economics at the Atlantic Council think tank, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
My distraction made me lose focus and my next hatchet hack hit the metal ring that held the barrel together and glanced off.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
The fasting mice had better blood values, less fatty liver and liver inflammation and above all: they developed less liver cancer and had fewer cancer foci in the liver.
From Science Daily ● May 7, 2024
TRY IT #7 Graph the ellipse given by the equation Identify and label the center, vertices, co-vertices, and foci.
From Textbooks ● Sep. 23, 2020
The line through the foci is called the transverse axis.
From Textbooks ● Sep. 23, 2020
A line drawn through the foci intersect the ellipse in two points.
From Textbooks ● May 6, 2020
Even therapeutic measures have the important result not only of curing the patient but of reducing the foci of infection.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Another case authorities are pursuing focuses on an employee at KPMG, the global accounting and consulting firm, people familiar with that investigation said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Goal-based investing focuses on achieving a specific objective, like saving for retirement or purchasing a home.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
As a result, incoming light focuses in front of the retina rather than directly on it, making distant objects appear blurry.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
He is a grounded and family-orientated individual who enjoys the occasional game of golf but always focuses on his football.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
He focuses his mind on us, bringing up our faces one by one.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
The trust also includes Chase Farm hospital, which focusses on planned surgery - such as orthopaedics and ear, nose and throat.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2025
"The metallic tip acts like an antenna and focusses the electromagnetic field in a tiny area below its apex."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2024
“This shocking news focusses our minds on Michael’s wife Clare and their sons,” said Roy Taylor, a professor of medicine and metabolism at Newcastle University who co-authored “The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet” with Mosley.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 7, 2024
This latest research focusses on how this happens at the structural level.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 5, 2023
Notice how emphatically in this context the Apostle gathers together his wider thoughts, and focusses them into a point.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Alexander Maclaren
Prime Minister Andy Burnham said the previous plans were "too slow" and ministers should be "laser focused" on tackling such crimes.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
It marks a notable pivot for the brothers, who for years were focused on their father’s turf of real estate, golf and branding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
During his brief chairmanship thus far, Warsh has focused on big-picture topics like how artificial intelligence may boost worker productivity in the coming years.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
Some experiments focused on configurations that appeared especially promising, while others explored less certain parts of the search space that could provide new information and improve the model.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
He focused on the golden light, awaiting the familiar tug.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
The college said mental health staff have been too focussed on treating symptoms rather than exploring how past traumatic experiences can still affect patients.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Across Caracas and La Guaira, many were focussed instead on Sunday services in churches to remember those lost and still missing.
From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 2026
"We're currently focussed on the Grand Final of the 70th Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, with 25 incredible songs and artists from across Europe and Australia competing," they said.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
A number of other parties focussed on picking up seats this way, which sees MSPs elected in wider electoral regions.
From BBC ● May 10, 2026
“Partly on his interest being focussed on what he calls ‘the soul,’ which he persists in regarding as an entity independent of the physical environment, whereas, as I tried to point out to him ...”
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
Though Skubal excels at focusing on the present, he also seems to sense how much weight his words carry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
The team then examined opioid responsive receptors on cells in the locus coeruleus, focusing especially on mu opioid receptors.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
But as OpenAI rolled out products from video creation to web browsers, Anthropic aimed far more narrowly, focusing on building the best platform for computer programmers.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
But by focusing on more seasoned and profitable companies via the S&P 500, that same investor could have gotten something else wrong: the surge in small- and microcap stocks this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
“As you go from station to station, we’ve targeted specific skill areas we want you focusing on. Put in the extra work this afternoon.”
From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner
He described the Scottish election result as "disappointing and hurtful" and took full responsibility for the strategy of focussing the campaign on constituencies rather than the list vote.
From BBC ● May 10, 2026
The NHS was thought to have only two weeks' supply in stock and so was focussing on emergency patients and the most complex cases on the waiting list.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026
They worry that all it does is belittle hard work and dedication, instead, focussing on appearance and the pressure to look a certain way.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2025
Campbell insisted he was focussing on the future and delivering on his election promises.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2025
Occasionally, focussing on a linguistic alteration can mislead us into thinking that something important has happened when it hasn’t, or that something happened at a particular moment when it actually happened earlier.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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