focus
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China’s carmakers are also willing to operate on razor-thin operating margins while they focus on winning market share.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Much of that depends on whom the filmmakers choose as their celebrity focus — and why.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
The end of the consultations has brought renewed focus on the prime minister's dilemma.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Mitchell Brown, a Republican pollster, has noticed something new in the focus groups he runs with voters in battleground states: “They know exactly, to the dollar, the amount of their power bill,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
“My focus is the property seizure,” Dad says.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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 #7 Graph the ellipse given by the equation Identify and label the center, vertices, co-vertices, and foci.
From Textbooks ● Sep. 23, 2020
The line through the foci, is called the transverse axis.
From Textbooks ● May 6, 2020
Ellipses have two centers, or foci; the more elongated the ellipse, the farther apart these foci are.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Instead, the researchers say dietary guidance may be more useful when it focuses on the nutritional quality of foods, particularly their sugar and calorie content, rather than whether they taste sweet.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
They are the same ones Rogers focuses on in that video, and they’re repeated, ad nauseam, every time Piker appears on television.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026
“You don’t have to file reports on your quarterly performance,” said Tannor Manson, an investor and content creator who focuses on tech stocks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Earnings growth was concentrated at Siemens' Smart Infrastructure business, which supplies electrical equipment for data centres and other industrial customers, as well as the Digital Industries division, which focuses on software to automate processes.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
He gestures to complex problems facing the new country but focuses on the 1966 massacres.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
"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
However MP Gholamreza Nouri-Qezeljeh warned that the move came with "dangers", especially since a large portion of the bill focusses on "criminalising and punishing" hijab-related violations.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2023
Raffles, however, following the chronicles, focusses the overthrow of the Hindu supremacy in the capture of the city of Majapahit in 1478 A.D.
From A Visit to Java With an Account of the Founding of Singapore by Worsfold, W. Basil (William Basil)
Takeover speculation could still push the stock higher, but L&G has said it is focused solely on executing its strategy, the analysts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
"I'm focused on winning the midterms, I'm running for Congress right now," she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
New offensive coordinator Mike McDaniel’s scheme is largely focused on getting the ball to playmakers in space quickly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
Cservenka and OSU colleagues Julia Donner and Alexia Obrochta focused on what is commonly known as CAR, or the cortisol awakening response.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
The baby’s eyes were bright, big, and focused completely on the woman’s face.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
She said previous studies had focussed more on porpoises but the picture "remained unclear" for common dolphins.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
The deterioration of that relationship was not the only highly personal situation the court focussed on.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
In the meantime, Zelensky has focussed on bolstering Ukraine where he can.
From BBC ● May 2, 2026
Anthropic for example has focussed its message on promoting AI safety and tighter regulation.
From Barron's ● Apr. 25, 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
Different planes of boron arsenide produced sixfold, eightfold, and fourfold focusing patterns.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
He did so by focusing on internal research and development paired with smaller deals, rather than relying on unwieldy corporate consolidation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
If you are at an early stage of your career, focusing on long-term growth, you will probably be better off not pursuing an income strategy.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
After all, fancams - zoomed-in videos focusing on a single celebrity - are a prized currency in K-pop communities.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
“I’m focusing yours with mine, so you won’t break the chandeliers.”
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
What is the multi-trillion pound industry focussing on in 2026?
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2026
However, Tom Lubbock, from pollsters JL Partners, thinks focussing on Reform UK is "extremely smart politics".
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2025
He says rather than focussing on extending life-span, we should instead strive for healthy years lived.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2025
They worry that all it does is belittle hard work and dedication, instead, focussing on appearance and the pressure to look a certain way.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 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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