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concentrate

[kon-suhn-treyt] / ˈkɒn sənˌtreɪt /




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Together, these characteristics allow the bacteria to concentrate where tumors are located while avoiding normal tissues.

From Science Daily Jul. 10, 2026

“It’s going to concentrate the fundraising over the next few years as well into these already very large names,” Stanford said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2026

Greater presidential control has upsides and downsides—in dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor predicts that the ruling will concentrate unprecedented and possibly dangerous levels of power in the president’s hands.

From Slate Jul. 6, 2026

She says things are going so well she left her full-time marketing job in February to concentrate exclusively on her dance business.

From BBC Jul. 5, 2026

I open to the first chapter, but I can’t concentrate, because Ms. Martinez is flipping through the pages of someone’s exam—mine?

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

Marine cloud brightening concentrates particles close to Earth's surface in one specific region.

From Science Daily Jul. 3, 2026

Mr. Wright, whose own ancestors ran a local newspaper in Georgia, concentrates on those who literally got their hands dirty learning the newspaper game.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 30, 2026

Lamine Yamal prefers to let the media talk the talk while he concentrates on walking the walk, even with the constant Ballon d'Or chatter that has followed him since he was 16.

From BBC Jun. 4, 2026

China’s Sichuan Yahua Industrial Group announced this week that it had secured a six-month export quota for lithium concentrates from Zimbabwe, just two months after the African country banned exports of raw lithium.

From Barron's Apr. 17, 2026

Celia concentrates on the palms tossing their headdresses in the sky.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

Population growth is increasingly concentrated in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and some Middle Eastern countries, the report said.

From Barron's Jul. 14, 2026

The use of leverage, whether from margin debt, options trading or levered exchange-traded funds, all tends to be concentrated in the same stocks, he said.

From MarketWatch Jul. 13, 2026

Many instead turned to the Roundhill Memory exchange-traded fund, a concentrated bet on U.S. and Korean memory-chip stocks including SK Hynix and Samsung.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

The touch maps back this up – Haaland having many fewer and more concentrated in the opposing penalty area with Kane involved across the pitch.

From BBC Jul. 9, 2026

So he concentrated on getting his hands to work better.

From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry

In 2017, the US government pulled more than half of its staff from its embassy in Havana after employees and their families reported dizziness, nausea and difficulty concentrating.

From BBC Jul. 11, 2026

Michelle Pfeiffer’s return to series television after years of concentrating on feature films and her family has paid off in a big way.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

“Premium tiers sell out and premium prices rise because high-quality engagement demand is concentrating in a scarce set of premium acts,” the analysts said.

From MarketWatch Jul. 2, 2026

Welltower also gained an edge by concentrating on the industry’s most lucrative segment: upscale communities serving affluent seniors.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 29, 2026

Wherever Roz looked she saw normal robots concentrating on their tasks and on nothing else.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown




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