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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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Finding the workers needed to help build its data centers has been an area of focus recently.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

The Labour government, meanwhile, is promising a new equality and diversity strategy with a primary focus on getting working class people joining and progressing in the civil service.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

Peters added that Tango’s “primary focus is now to bring forward” the vopimetostat and daraxonrasib combination “approach in pancreatic cancer.”

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

Those samples helped launch an investigation into a protein called GRK2, which has been the focus of Quitterer's research for many years.

From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026

Next to me Helen has noticed that something has happened but then her switchboard lights up and she can’t focus on me.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse




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