- present participle of focus.
focussing
Example Sentences
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"We spent the first 20 years of this century focussing almost entirely on counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency," said Sir Alex Younger, who was Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service from 2014-2020.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
It has been promoted as a means of bringing people together in the shared story of their traumatic past, with "reparations" quite literally focussing on "repair" at a very human level.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 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
