focus
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“The focus is not so much showing off the wealth, but at least, you know, it’s still there,” says the show’s costume designer Farnaz Khaki-Sadigh.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
It was Mark Pulte, who veered off from the Pulte home-building business to focus on luxury properties.
From Salon • Jun. 9, 2026
—Eurozone government bond yields edged lower in opening trade, with the market’s focus on a widely anticipated quarter-point rate hike by the European Central Bank on Thursday.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
In his resignation statement, he said he wanted to focus on fighting "factually incorrect and entirely false, decades-old allegations" concerning his personal life, describing the investigation by Panorama and the Times as "fundamentally unfair".
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026
I focus my eyes on a couple of seagulls fighting over a discarded slice of pizza.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
Vocabulary lists containing focus
The SAT: Language of the Test, List 2
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The Language of Standardized Tests, List 1
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