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focus

[foh-kuhs] / ˈfoʊ kəs /
NOUN
center or object of attention
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NOUN
point at which light or sound converge
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He called on brands to decentralise their logistics, focus on short-term supply chains and use smaller warehouses or ones located in neighbouring countries.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

At a time when many college students say they are rethinking their academic focus because of AI, new findings supply hard data on the potential costs of these decisions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Walton says filming can take him away for six months, while preparing to fight demands an eight-week camp and complete focus.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Life Surge says its teachings instead focus on biblical stewardship and using financial success to make a greater impact through Christian ministry.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

I focus on the bag of rocks in my hand and space out my breaths, try to force my voice straight.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

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

The center must be the midpoint of the line segment joining the foci.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021

An ellipse is the set of all points in the plane the sum of whose distances from two fixed points, called the foci, is a constant.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021

The midpoint of the segment joining the foci is called the center of the hyperbola.

From Textbooks ● May 6, 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

“I walked him through it. I said, ‘You’ve been to Nevada; you have a hotel in Nevada,’” Lombardo said on the “GangboX” podcast, which focuses on union construction workers in the area.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Finance focuses on practical money skills, while economics develops understanding of broader financial systems.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026

But there are already worries that this might become a fictional narrative unless he also focuses even more on the here and now.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Benedict Cumberbatch is a wryly charming presenter for this climate crisis documentary that focuses on the positive.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Mama just shrugs and focuses on changing lanes.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

The trust also includes Chase Farm hospital, which focusses on planned surgery - such as orthopaedics and ear, nose and throat.

From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2025

"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

The simple method of producing Shakespeare focusses the interest of the audience on the actor and actress; it gives them a dignity and importance which are unknown to the complex method.

From Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays by Sir Sidney Lee

Much Alzheimer's research has traditionally focused on these abnormalities, but scientists are increasingly studying additional processes that may contribute to the disease.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026

The dynamic has worried some AI researchers focused on risk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Conversation in the house during these years often focused on global catastrophic risks ranging from comet strikes to supervolcanoes, according to a person who spent time there.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Expected rainfall over the next five days will be focused on northern and western parts of the UK.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

The three doctors focused on the parts of the human body capable of producing rapping sounds.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

The first minister's speech focussed on reform of the public sector to save money, cut bureaucracy, and improve how services are delivered.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

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

With the regime utterly focussed on its own survival, Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi, a Chatham House analyst based in Abu Dhabi, does not expect to see a different approach to dissent.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 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

The results support the idea that obesity therapies may be more effective when they target several physiological processes at once instead of focusing only on appetite.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

The state later narrowed its case to claims under Alabama's Deceptive Trade Practices Act, focusing on whether TikTok misrepresented the effectiveness of features such as "Restricted Mode" and "Kids Mode."

From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026

Investors are focusing on domestic bond yields and updates from the U.S.-China summit meeting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

But they’re great for focusing the public’s attention.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026

In the days leading up to the charrette, Durham’s two white newspapers also featured several in-depth stories about the event, many of them focusing on the odd couple chairing it.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

"Additionally, some trade unions are devoting energy to local consultations to mitigate the impact on those colleagues in detriment – focussing on providing specific solutions."

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

"As intervention is required, the government in making appropriate interventions but we're already focussing on keeping bills down."

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2026

Vaughan said Buttler is focussing too much on his technique while attempting to get out of his rut.

From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2026

What is the multi-trillion pound industry focussing on in 2026?

From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2026

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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