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focal

adjective as in pertaining to a focus

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With wide receiver Michael Thomas on injured reserve through the end of the regular season because of his ankle injury, Kamara is the focal point of the offense.

Spotify has understandably been the focal point for this conversation, all while the company has spent hundreds of millions to bolster its podcast programming.

Coach Ron Rivera said the team has worked with Apke on his angles, one of his major focal points since college, and that “he’s done a nice job.”

We lost six talented, athletic guys that were going to be the focal point of our team.

In those cases it says it will experiment with how such images are presented, aiming to do so in a way that “doesn’t lose the creator’s intended focal point or take away from the integrity of the photo”.

For us it was clear that China should be the focal point for a documentary on the subject of Internet addiction.

The Lenin statue has now become the focal point of protests for Russia, and against the ‘fascists’ in Kiev.

Perry does the opposite, creating worlds in which white people are disposable, interchangeable, and not the assumed focal point.

A moral focal point was Glen Echo Park, a wonderful art-deco playland in Maryland along the Potomac.

From Sally Draper to Arya Stark, teenage girls provide a focal point within the prestige television narrative.

My two eyes haven't quite the same focal length and this often puts me out of the straight with a column of figures.

The observed effect is probably due to the fact that the focal surface is not flat, but curved.

It contains a telescope made by Fitz, whose focal length is seventeen feet, and its object-glass is twelve and a half inches.

That of M. de Vilette was three feet eleven inches in diameter, and its focal distance was three feet two inches.

The life-giving activity of the deity in connection with human procreation came to be of focal interest.

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On this page you'll find 8 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to focal, such as: central, important, main, nucleus, and principal.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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