concentrate
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The pitch is familiar: Faster service, fewer mistakes and less repetitive work for employees, who will theoretically be freed to concentrate on something more important.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
The settings do not merely suggest sterility but concentrate the mind on the performers’ fascinating countenances.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The US labor market has been largely stable this year, allowing the Fed to concentrate on the inflation side of its dual mandate.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Previous research has associated metabolites produced during protein fermentation with effects on the brain, including anxiety and reduced ability to concentrate.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
Pierce, a Northerner, believed that the Compromise of 1850 had solved the slavery issue, declaring, “We have been carried in safety through a perilous crisis …” He wanted Americans to concentrate on prosperity and peace.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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Dry heat browns, evaporates and concentrates while you go do something else.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
The Lib Dem leader also addressed the potential threat posed by AI in his speech, saying that "handled badly, it concentrates more power in fewer hands than at any point in human history."
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
"In these settings, the mantle behaves like a multi-stage melting system that progressively concentrates gold."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
The focus was on raw concentrates of the rechargeable battery ingredient lithium, with most of its hundreds of thousands of tons of annual production shipped out to China, the world's largest maker of electric vehicles.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
He concentrates on the necklace, his jaw twitching.
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
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Strong lensing is especially useful for measuring the mass concentrated near a cluster's center, while weak lensing can reveal how matter is distributed across its outer regions.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
The broader analysis also reinforced the earlier finding that an unusually large amount of mass is concentrated near the cluster's center.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
Adding a risky, concentrated private investment to your broader stock portfolio is not necessarily the best way to diversify.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
September’s drop in employment was concentrated among youth 15 to 24, as well as among women aged 25 to 54.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
He called the molecule nuclein because it was concentrated in a cell’s nucleus.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Leverage works great when asset prices rise, but concentrating a large share of your wealth in a single, illiquid, undiversified asset also magnifies downside risk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
The path to a safe future, he said, is to “distribute this technology widely and create the right checks and balances, rather than concentrating it in the hands of just a few.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
He also cautioned against the technology concentrating wealth, saying OpenAI did not want to be the only company in the field or to "suck up all the value."
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
Werro has improved every year of her top-level career and now, having finished her studies and concentrating on the track, has shown ruthless consistency.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Isobel sighs but she obediently closes her eyes, concentrating.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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