focus
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“All I can do right now is focus on taking care of myself and my children, one day at a time,” Hila said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
“Turning now to civil, our focus is on rebuilding the portfolio and gaining momentum,” she continues.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Redvers told a three-week employment tribunal hearing that she felt the focus on investigating her meant issues of patient safety had been sidelined.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
The NBA star explained that the development’s focus on fitness, nutrition, and luxury living played a significant role in his decision to invest in the property.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
The Jesuits are widely known for their focus on social justice and human rights, as well as a devotion to theology, missionary work, and education.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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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
One of the foci will be located at the origin.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
TRY IT #5 Graph the ellipse given by the equation Identify and label the center, vertices, co- vertices, and foci.
From Textbooks ● Sep. 23, 2020
Identify the center, vertices, co-vertices, and foci of the ellipse.
From Textbooks ● Sep. 23, 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
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Logging, hunting and cross-border trade are the focuses there -- but these days, so is politics and the price of fuel.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
The paper focuses on a "bombshell" interview Prince Harry gave GQ magazine, where he said he hoped for reconciliation with his family.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
Martin focuses on significant divergences in the market to gauge the likelihood of an imminent market turning point, though the particular divergences he considers most significant is proprietary.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
Psychoanalysis, which grew out of Freud's work, focuses more on unconscious mental processes, emotional experiences, and the ways past relationships influence present behavior.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
When my camera lens focuses on that tiny pale white dot, I feel so far away from them.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
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Unlike Orban, who waxes lyrical on global politics, Magyar focusses on domestic issues such as healthcare, education, transport and rural depopulation in his speeches.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026
"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
His round tunnel bored in a sandy bank is largest at the opening, like the mouth of a trumpet, and contracts within—a form which focusses the undulations of the air.
From The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life by Richard Jefferies
"I am really focused on my job here. I have no time to think about these rumours because we play every three days," said Hurzeler.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
McKinney has focused his campaign on lessening the city’s homelessness crisis by leveraging people into treatment, tackling quality-of-life crimes, and reducing the city’s out-of-control legal costs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
In an effort to fill the gap, businesses have focused their advertising efforts on the domestic market.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
“Nobody believed that would happen,” says Jacopo Buongiorno, a professor focused on nuclear energy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
“Forget it. Just stay focused on the road,” Akira’s dad said.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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But that didn't stop its shares from surging nearly 10 percent on Thursday, as investors focussed on its profit outlook.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Pushing through this is definitely not easy, England stayed focussed, they stayed in the zone, a huge shout out to them because that's not an easy one.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 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
She said previous studies had focussed more on porpoises but the picture "remained unclear" for common dolphins.
From BBC ● Jun. 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
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"I became obsessed with trying to do longer and longer distances," he said, "then I started focusing on times."
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
Even with her fraud thoroughly exposed, even in a documentary where she repeatedly resorts to the obvious trick of focusing on semantics, we remain fascinated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
To cash in, some producers are focusing on keeping every fish alive and healthy until they are big enough to harvest, which typically takes three years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
In federal corruption probes, agents often begin by focusing on lower-level targets with a goal of working their way up to more prominent figures.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
He tried to snap himself out of it by focusing on happier things.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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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
Dr Becks Fisher said, of the Nuffield Trust think tank, said the service will be helpful for some and focussing on menopause and menstrual health "makes sense" given the long waits for gynaecology services.
From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2026
However, Tom Lubbock, from pollsters JL Partners, thinks focussing on Reform UK is "extremely smart politics".
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 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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